Example sentences of "[was/were] lie on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two golden shafts of light from the yard lamp crossed their bodies and he could see that they were lying on a mixture of old sacks and loose hay . |
| 2 | But for all his misgivings , here he is with one of the most desirable women in France eating truffle shavings and half an hour ago they were lying on a bed together . |
| 3 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 4 | By this time Gordon Sloan , a Reporter from Strathclyde Region , had been brought in to do the work in Orkney , as the islands ' own Reporter , Mrs Katherine Kemp , was still under suspension , and the details of her case were lying on the Secretary of State 's desk in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | The books were lying on the bed , where he had left them . |
| 6 | They were lying on the bed after making love , every trace of lust scoured out of them , their bodies clean and abandoned . |
| 7 | Less than 4½ months following the two successful Spitfire transfers , VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) and a number of her crew were lying on the bottom of the Pacific . |
| 8 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 9 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 10 | Two Cellophane-wrapped sprays that she had been unable to deliver were lying on the bouquet of roses she had prepared for her rival . |
| 11 | They were lying on the kitchen floor . |
| 12 | I got up , we were lying on the sofa , and knelt by him and told him not to worry . |
| 13 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 14 | An assortment of clothes were lying on the table . |
| 15 | I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass . |
| 16 | And May leant forward from her chair and stroked the cat and its kitten that were lying on the rug before the blazing coal fire . |
| 17 | He was lying on a bed , placed between two open windows , his head being without any cap or covering of any sort , while his grey locks were literally floating in the wind , for , although in July , it was cold and blowing weather . |
| 18 | I was lying on a bed of colours . |
| 19 | The bag was lying on a bed . |
| 20 | When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her . |
| 21 | Her woollen hat was lying on a chair : she was a tidy woman , over-tidy ; there was a place for everything and everything in its place , was her motto . |
| 22 | Jagatan was lying on a couch under the awning at the door . |
| 23 | She was lying on an examination couch before she realised that he had undressed , as well . |
| 24 | It was lying on the edge of the pavement , with one end trailing onto the cobbled street . |
| 25 | She was lying on the edge of the bed far from Tom and had not known it was Tom 's bed and Tom 's room or that she was not alone , but had been cast at once , as usual , into that incredulous panic where she was asking herself , how could I have left Mike ? |
| 26 | Dr Edward Kandiyali thought Stanley Kitchen , who had tried to commit suicide , was lying on the shard when he saw the X-ray photo at Hull Royal Infirmary . |
| 27 | And it was on the floor but she was lying on the bottle . |
| 28 | A pile of letters was lying on the floor . |
| 29 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 30 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |