Example sentences of "[v-ing] open on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found her file lying open on the desk in his office . |
| 2 | A Siamese cat picks its way among the confusion of London Library volumes lying open on the table . |
| 3 | We were almost into November now and I did n't need to be an expert navigator to work out from the charts , and the Admiralty Pilot lying open on the chart table , that to be into the south of the Weddell Sea in time to take maximum advantage of the summer loosening of the pack we would need to be away not later than end-November . |
| 4 | Lucy glanced down at the book lying open on the desk . |
| 5 | She gestured towards the books lying open on the desk . |
| 6 | Zen stood there in the elegant and spacious sitting room , listening to the insistent voices of the glass and steel coffee table supporting a spray of glossy magazines , the pouchy leather furniture over which a huge lamp on a curved stainless-steel pole craned like a vulture , the silver plates and the crystal bowls , the discreetly modern canvases , the shelves lined with works of literature , the expensive antiques , the handwoven rugs on the gleaming parquet floor , the baby grand piano with a Mozart sonata Iying open on the stand , the fireplace piled high with logs . |