Example sentences of "lay [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out . |
| 2 | Delighted about Jim , apprehensive for Jasper , Alice lay for a long time awake in the silent room . |
| 3 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 4 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 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 . |