Example sentences of "[prep] it lay the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer was rejected but behind it lay the assumption that a new relationship will have to develop between north and the south in a wider European context . |
| 2 | Behind it lay the woods called The Chase , an ancient forest . |
| 3 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 4 | Beyond it lay the tiny garden , the lawn neatly trimmed , delphinia and gladioli , irises and hemerocallis in bloom in the dark earth borders . |
| 5 | Beyond it lay the Victorian Gothic church and some large houses of the same period , now mostly turned into flats . |
| 6 | On it lay the Vietnamese manservant , moaning quietly and holding a surgical dressing to his thigh . |
| 7 | On it lay the silky brown square of a caramel . |
| 8 | On it lay the remnants of bandages , the scissors and a tin of basilicum powder , lit by another candelabrum . |
| 9 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |