Example sentences of "lie in [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | The main disadvantage of the method lies in the long periods of time required to reach equilibrium . |
2 | I said I would drive into the country , lie in the long grass and watch the sun go down until it was quite dark . |
3 | Mrs Hobbs was on the terrace of the hotel , lying in a long chair with her legs up . |
4 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
5 | Now he faced the biggest obstacle he would ever have to clear , for the only chance of cure lay in a long and horrifically painful course of chemotherapy . |
6 | They climbed until they reached the first pocket of snow , which lay in a long , dark slash on the mountain 's side . |
7 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
8 | We climbed the low hills northwest of the loch and lay in the long grass under the pines and the birch , looking out over the small glen to the forested hill on the far side where the old railway tunnel was . |
9 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |