Example sentences of "[noun sg] lying [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his office window , the Bursar could see a quarter of an acre of dense undergrowth lying behind the School Pavilion ; it was once the site of the Convent greenhouses and allotments , but now unused and neglected . |
| 2 | He saw the pig 's bladder lying at the boy 's feet , very similar to the one he had seen two children playing with on Holborn thoroughfare . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She saw a figure lying on the ground and O'Hara holding Geoffrey 's arms behind his back . |
| 5 | Peering down , Turner was puzzled by the trussed figure lying on the ground . |
| 6 | Yes , there was certainly a figure lying in the mud . |
| 7 | But what was the agonised cry and the figure lying by the line side ? |
| 8 | An upperplate margin is formed by crust lying above the detachment fault while a lower-plate margin is developed on deeper crustal rocks lying below the detachment zone and which may be overlain by faulted fragments of the upper plate . |
| 9 | Kugelbaum came across a football lying on the pavement . |
| 10 | I awoke after a night of rain and high winds to find the garden fence lying on the ground . |
| 11 | Chatterton is as much as anything the famous painting of his death in a Holborn attic done in the 1850s by Henry Wallis — with the poet lying across the bed in a kind of frozen entrechat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I ran into Phil 's house and saw the granddad lying on the floor with a hole in his leg . |
| 14 | There is a small spine-like papilla lying within the mouth slit which is probably the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 15 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 16 | He judged the current Transactions of the Royal Society to be unworthy of publication , the fault lying with the Secretary . |
| 17 | He points out that the courts have departed from the old literal approach of statutory construction and now adopt a purposive approach , seeking to discover the Parliamentary intention lying behind the words used and construing the legislation so as to give effect to , rather than thwart , the intentions of Parliament . |
| 18 | Even in such cases references in court to Parliamentary material should only be permitted where such material clearly discloses the mischief aimed at or the legislative intention lying behind the ambiguous or obscure words . |
| 19 | Lord Browne-Wilkinson refers to material which ‘ clearly discloses the mischief aimed at or the legislative intention lying behind the ambiguous or obscure words ’ and which ‘ contains a clear indication from the minister of the mischief aimed at , or the nature of the case intended , by the legislation ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For example , subjects in the 50th centile group had a birth weight lying between the 49th and 50th centiles after the above factors had been taken into account . |
| 22 | He moved the pen lying on the blotter in front of him slightly to one side . |
| 23 | But they had bought food on their way coming through Halstead , the 1976 version of takeaway , a couple of meat pies , apples , Coke , and they had had lunch lying in the grass by the lake . |
| 24 | With its galleried dining hall lying off the octagonal entrance hall , one sees echoes ( intentionally ) of a medieval manor house . |
| 25 | Figure 3.10 shows a radial section through this surface embedded in a three-dimensional space , with the additional dimension lying in the paper perpendicular to r . |
| 26 | However , the Bernese Alps ‘ range ’ is generally understood to refer to the entire mountain range lying between the so-called Interlaken Valley to the north and the Rhône Valley to the south . |
| 27 | Erosion has , in some areas , removed much of the sand lying above the water-table and the resulting equilibrium is maintained by the wet soil conditions which inhibit cultivation or erosion . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Paull is a small village lying beside the river Humber some seven miles from Hull and three and a half miles south-west of Hedon . |
| 30 | Lindsey looked down at the child lying on the examination couch and felt the breath catch in her throat . |