Example sentences of "[noun sg] lying on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 2 | She saw a figure lying on the ground and O'Hara holding Geoffrey 's arms behind his back . |
| 3 | Peering down , Turner was puzzled by the trussed figure lying on the ground . |
| 4 | Kugelbaum came across a football lying on the pavement . |
| 5 | I awoke after a night of rain and high winds to find the garden fence lying on the ground . |
| 6 | It is perfectly possible to catch rabbits while ferreting with snow lying on the ground , but I do think that snow makes long-netting impossible as the net becomes clogged , wet and inoperable . |
| 7 | ‘ I ran into Phil 's house and saw the granddad lying on the floor with a hole in his leg . |
| 8 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 9 | The man said he later went outside and saw a soldier lying on the road with others around him who seemed to be helping him or attending to him . |
| 10 | He moved the pen lying on the blotter in front of him slightly to one side . |
| 11 | Roos is a small village lying on the plain of Holderness , 15 miles east of Hull and four miles north-west of the seaside town of Withernsea . |
| 12 | Lindsey looked down at the child lying on the examination couch and felt the breath catch in her throat . |
| 13 | The obstacles to be cleared away are not just boulders or other debris lying on the road ( which could refer to ) but are the natural features ( v. 4 will mention them as mountains and valleys ) that are to be overcome and eliminated in the construction of an entirely new road . |
| 14 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 15 | There was a crutch lying on the ground beside him and another at an angle under his right arm . |
| 16 | The next stage is to persuade it to remain in position while you move away , with the leash lying on the ground . |
| 17 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw the girl lying on the sidewalk with blood gushing from her head . |
| 19 | Picture that portfolio lying on the table … ’ |
| 20 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 21 | Out of deference to the little lady lying on the sea floor , no diesel . |
| 22 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
| 23 | She dropped her eyes to the desk , staring unseeingly at the ledger lying on the polished wooden surface . |
| 24 | She sat up , measuring the distance from the bed to her discarded robe lying on the soft carpet . |
| 25 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 26 | When Ross Lovegrove walked into the office of the Hermés design director he spotted a memo from the chairman lying on the desk . |
| 27 | Dot saw the curly mass of Gloria 's dark hair lying on the pillow of a similar but separate bed alongside . |
| 28 | Flinging herself round and seeing at least three inches of her hair lying on the wooden floor , she yelled , ‘ How dare you ! |
| 29 | The laundry had been delivered during the day , and there was a great , big , brown paper parcel lying on the kitchen table . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't worry about Scott , ’ he said , glancing across at the Delta Elite lying on the table . |