Example sentences of "lie [prep] bed " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 8 , Abercorn Avenue , Rita Ablewhite lies in bed in the dark . |
| 2 | Two in the morning , and John lies in bed in the dark . |
| 3 | It is covered in ivy by day and by night in mystery and when I lie in bed I see men and women through it passing by . |
| 4 | In the quiet of night I lie in bed and hear the rattle of stones tumbling down this cliff , as , far below , the North American tectonic plate strains against the Gorda plate to its north and the Pacific plate to its west . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I lie in bed and eat cakes ! ’ |
| 6 | Back in my hotel — a different , better one — I lie in bed and read Camus 's Journal : |
| 7 | How can anything happen if you lie in bed all the time . |
| 8 | THERE are times when you just want to give up , lie in bed or in the garden and let someone else do all the work . |
| 9 | I remember lying in bed and the only thing I could see was the dim glow of the light bulb on the ceiling . |
| 10 | I was lying in bed , happy , and then Marie comes home and she 's all bashed up , then she says I hate her . |
| 11 | Elsie Hogan , her young face wasted and gaunt , was lying in bed reading a letter . |
| 12 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 13 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 14 | Lying in bed that evening , they talked a lot about their life together . |
| 15 | Anthony was always on the phone , rushing about like a bull in a china shop , or lying in bed till twelve with one or other of his girlfriends . |
| 16 | Everyone else in her class would be spending the holidays riding or playing in the hills or lying in bed until midday . |
| 17 | Usually , at this time , they were lying in bed talking . |
| 18 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 19 | It 's a kind of dreamtime — the darkness , the way you 're almost lying in bed . |
| 20 | Even lying in bed reading a newspaper , occasionally lifting your cup of tea to your lips , is exercise . |
| 21 | In Athena Gardens , Jordan and Cabochon were lying in bed sharing a joint of particularly sweet weed . |
| 22 | Lying in bed that November day , Wilson looked at the baby cradled in her arms and felt dizzy at the sight of his uncanny resemblance to his brother . |
| 23 | Lying in bed , Pilade still asleep in her arms , she remembered the journeys she had made with the Brownings and the pleasure the intimacy of the carriage had given her . |
| 24 | Mr Delmo Vigna , who was lying in bed in his first-floor flat when the bomb went off , said : ‘ Just 20 minutes earlier , I had stuck my head out of the window to throw a bucket of water on the street to clean it . |
| 25 | In her last public statement , issued through a publicity agent , Mrs Helmsley described her final evening at home as ‘ lying in bed , cuddling and necking ’ with her husband , Mr Harry Helmsley , 83 , the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building and who was also charged with tax evasion before being deemed too frail to stand trial . |
| 26 | And the dream took her into hospital where the nice young man was lying in bed with his head bandaged and she was holding his hand ; and the dream brought a little comfort to the events of a night that was to be the turning point in her life . |
| 27 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 28 | This takes practice but you can soon learn to use that new-found sense of awareness whether you are going through a tranquil period of your life or whether you are lying in bed wondering why you can not get to sleep . |
| 29 | So there I was lying in bed as the Mafias slowly closed in on me . |
| 30 | And here was I lying in bed counting my fifty-seven get well cards ! |