Example sentences of "[pers pn] was lying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I tell you , a few years ago when I was lying in my hospital bed , one of the things that went through my mind was whether I would be able to drive again . |
| 32 | Her mother was already back : she was lying under a blanket on the bed . |
| 33 | When I awoke around 4 a.m. , still in my boots , she was lying beside me , entombed in her woollen nightgown , and fiercely whispering , Nein . |
| 34 | And Minny said ( she was lying beside me , oh , it 's so clear ) she said , would n't it be wonderful if Piers was dumb . |
| 35 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 36 | before I knew it she was suffocating she was lying across my neck . |
| 37 | It was a warm , sunny afternoon four years ago , and she was lying on her back in the park feeling too weak to move . |
| 38 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 39 | when she opened her eyes she was lying on one of the seats inside the shelter , and — horror of horrors ! — a huge crowd had collected . |
| 40 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |
| 41 | She was lying on the carpet , the lips of her cunt , soft and blunt , pushing up through a mound of black curls . |
| 42 | She was lying on her back , pulling lazily at one of her nipples , watching it stretch . |
| 43 | She was lying on her bed , looking up at the ceiling , Smudge and Whisky curled on her stomach . |
| 44 | She was lying on an examination couch before she realised that he had undressed , as well . |
| 45 | She was lying on her back , naked except for a short wrapover dressing gown from which one blue-veined breast had escaped and lay like a quivering jellyfish against the pink satin . |
| 46 | She was lying on the cushions , smoking a cigarette and paying no attention to him . |
| 47 | She was lying on a large double bed , her belly huge and swollen . |
| 48 | She was very old and she was lying on her back , her feet towards me . |
| 49 | She was lying on the edge of the bed far from Tom and had not known it was Tom 's bed and Tom 's room or that she was not alone , but had been cast at once , as usual , into that incredulous panic where she was asking herself , how could I have left Mike ? |
| 50 | " When she was lying on her thin pallet at night she screwed her eyes up tight and then she could see his face . |
| 51 | When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her . |
| 52 | She was lying on her back . |
| 53 | She was lying on her side and Hugh was on his side also , clinging to her back , as though for protection . |
| 54 | She was lying on a hard surface . |
| 55 | Still wearing her full widow 's weeds , she was lying on her bed . |
| 56 | Of how she was lying on the ground , for example ? ’ |
| 57 | Sally-Anne 's returning senses told her that she was lying on an old-fashioned sofa with a high back at one end , and no sides . |
| 58 | She was lying on the sofa and he was — I do n't know — doing something to her . |
| 59 | She was lying on one of the sofas in the drawing-room . |
| 60 | Jake gathered her to him and rolled over on his back , so that she was lying on her stomach on top of him . |