Example sentences of "[adv] lying on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the patient becomes familiar with the feelings he experiences during his physiotherapy treatment , he can practise pelvic movements at home , perhaps lying on the floor if he does not have his own plinth or a firm surface on his bed . |
| 2 | We were far from any village now and there was plenty of dead wood just lying on the ground . |
| 3 | When Ludo returned , he found her still dreamily lying on the bed . |
| 4 | It was still lying on the ground near where Hugh was deeply asleep . |
| 5 | She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment . |
| 6 | Still lying on the floor , raise your knees and cross the ankles . |
| 7 | Still lying on the floor , raise your knees and cross the ankles . |
| 8 | Still lying on the floor , raise your knees and cross the ankles . |
| 9 | The murderer had disappeared , but the dead man was still lying on the ground with the murder weapon beside him . |
| 10 | Groping for the light switch , whose position he had not yet memorised perfectly , he saw the evening 's post still lying on the table in the hall where he had put it before he came out . |
| 11 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
| 12 | In its rosy glow , Sara , still lying on the floor , saw Matthew . |
| 13 | She walked up the path and leant wearily against the wall while she dug in her bag for her key , then groaned when she remembered that it was still lying on the floor of the car park where she had dropped it . |
| 14 | I stood frozen to the spot unable to do anything ; I could see soldiers diving for cover ; the Frenchman who was coming towards me with a smile on his bearded face was now lying on the ground . |
| 15 | I was very curious about the other contents of the suitcase which was now lying on the floor near me . |
| 16 | But even if there had been no dust , smoke or snow , he would still have been unable to see it , because he was now lying on the floor beside the window , having fallen off his chair . |
| 17 | She spent each afternoon in bed , coming down for dinner and then lying on the sofa afterwards . |
| 18 | The great naturalist Edward Topsel , in the seventeenth century , waxed lyrical about feline play : ‘ Therefore how she beggeth , playeth , leapeth , looketh , catcheth , tosseth with her foot , riseth up to strings held over her head , sometimes creeping , sometimes lying on the back , playing with one foot , sometimes on the belly , snatching now with mouth , and anon with the foot … ’ |