Example sentences of "lie [adj] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a high mortality associated with old people who lie undetected for a long time , both related to the injury sustained and to complications ; such as hypothermia , dehydration , bronchopneumonia and breakdown of pressure areas ( Wild et al , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Hari lay awake for a long time , staring into the darkness . |
| 3 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 4 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 5 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 6 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |
| 7 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 8 | That night , Alice lay awake for a long time , listening to the noises of the old house , trying to hear if her mother was weeping . |
| 9 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 10 | Vologsky 's need to feel that he was not alone in the world had lain dormant for a long time . |