Example sentences of "[pers pn] was lying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bet you thought I was lying about the work to do , and all ? |
| 2 | The humour , I think , came from the fact that at the time of asking I was lying with my head near the ground and my feet near the ceiling and the man in question had most of his right hand in my mouth , his other hand on a high-power drill and his knee wedged round his own spittoon . |
| 3 | I was lying on the ground almost like a dead body . |
| 4 | I was lying on my room carpet wearing a balaclava back to front , pinned down by my friend with her knees on my shoulders , while she made whooping noises like a submarine diving . |
| 5 | I was lying on a bed of colours . |
| 6 | I was lying on my back and my whole body , my arms and legs were strongly fastened to the ground . |
| 7 | One evening a girl jumped on me when I was lying on my bed in my cubicle . |
| 8 | I was lying on my back , I was working my legs up and down a lot , |
| 9 | I was lying on the grass , seeing it all from a low angle , Gómez moving in and Ward turning on him . |
| 10 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 11 | Once I was lying on the bed I noticed that with the appearance of Aids , there is so much more precaution — every needle , tube , cotton wool swab etc is carefully disposed of . |
| 12 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 13 | I was lying on top of the bed-covers , naked apart from my underpants . |
| 14 | I kept thinking cos I was , was n't very well Saturday so I was lying on the settee thinking well I hope it ai n't me . |
| 15 | I was lying in bed , happy , and then Marie comes home and she 's all bashed up , then she says I hate her . |
| 16 | It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing . |
| 17 | I was lying in the middle of a green lane clutching a bunch of dandelions , my fingers gummy with the pungent milk oozing out of the squashed stems . |
| 18 | Soon after One-Leg 's publication I was lying in my bath in what is shown to visitors as Lord Anglesey 's Bathroom , looking out on the incomparable view of the Menai Strait with the majesty of Snowdon beyond , when a bold idea occurred to me . |
| 19 | So there I was lying in bed as the Mafias slowly closed in on me . |
| 20 | Another time I was lying in a hospital bed after a car crash — I 'd been lucky and escaped with minor injuries , but I 've always had a keen sense of drama , so I lay there feeling as though I 'd just come through the Battle of Britain . |
| 21 | The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you mean that you started writing Jane Eyre while I was lying in that dark room in Manchester ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was lying in the bath , ’ she had said , marching downstairs with a towel draped round her , looking ravishing but severe about the face . |
| 24 | It was only later , when I was lying in my bed , with the neon lights of a bar across the road flickering on the curtains and music blaring , that I remembered Ward standing in the saloon of the Cutty Sark and asking Iris Sunderby who she had in mind as navigator , who the man was who had convinced her he had also seen a ship locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea . |
| 25 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 26 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 27 | ‘ I never dreamed I would be here when I was lying in bed getting the chemotherapy with a five to ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 28 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 29 | Saturday night and stayed with his friends like and I , I and I did n't like it , I could I was lying in bed I thought I heard noises and all and I had all the windows |
| 30 | I was , I was lying in bed thinking ha ya good |