Example sentences of "[was/were] lying on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books were lying on the bed , where he had left them . |
| 2 | An assortment of clothes were lying on the table . |
| 3 | By this time Gordon Sloan , a Reporter from Strathclyde Region , had been brought in to do the work in Orkney , as the islands ' own Reporter , Mrs Katherine Kemp , was still under suspension , and the details of her case were lying on the Secretary of State 's desk in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Less than 4½ months following the two successful Spitfire transfers , VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) and a number of her crew were lying on the bottom of the Pacific . |
| 5 | They were lying on the kitchen floor . |
| 6 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 7 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 8 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 9 | I got up , we were lying on the sofa , and knelt by him and told him not to worry . |
| 10 | Men were lying on the dirty floor , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the bar . |
| 11 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 12 | Two Cellophane-wrapped sprays that she had been unable to deliver were lying on the bouquet of roses she had prepared for her rival . |
| 13 | They were lying on the bed after making love , every trace of lust scoured out of them , their bodies clean and abandoned . |
| 14 | I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass . |
| 15 | And May leant forward from her chair and stroked the cat and its kitten that were lying on the rug before the blazing coal fire . |
| 16 | When I came across Lovat he was lying on the ground . |
| 17 | He was lying on the ground covered with a blanket when I arrived , the medics were preparing to place the body on a jeep . |
| 18 | He was lying on the path . |
| 19 | I was lying on the ground almost like a dead body . |
| 20 | ‘ I then went to help Neville , who was lying on the track bleeding badly . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road . |
| 22 | A pile of letters was lying on the floor . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was lying on the edge of the pavement , with one end trailing onto the cobbled street . |
| 25 | The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field . |
| 26 | As Shirley sped away , Heather seized a branch of a tree that was lying on the ground near and began to beat out the flames with it . |
| 27 | Soon , he found himself standing over a young Dragoon who was lying on the ground . |
| 28 | A small brown object was lying on the ground near the larger of the two windows . |
| 29 | Paula , wearing tight pedal pushers and a cotton off-the-shoulder jersey , was sprawled on her elbows on the tiled fire-surround , smoking and puffing the smoke up the chimney whilst Louise , stripped to her sexy black lace underwear , was lying on the bed pounding at her thighs with some kind of massager which appeared to consist of a collection of rubber pimples on a brush head . |
| 30 | 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 . |