Example sentences of "lying around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 2 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 3 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 4 | There a few items lying around on the battlements for the adventurers to find : old arrows and rusty arrowheads , a bucketful of congealed pitch , a bunch of rotten torches tied up with twine , a rotted length of rope and the like . |
| 5 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 6 | So if you cut your toenails do n't leave them lying around on the floor , do n't make too much noise if you have to use the slop bucket at night and if you 're a shit-stabber then I 'll tell you now , my arsehole is n't for rent . |
| 7 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 8 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |
| 9 | The men and women lying around on the ground were roughly shaken awake . |
| 10 | He put his huge right hand on her polished gold kneecaps , because it suddenly looked ridiculous lying around on the arm of a chair , and said , ’ No . ’ |
| 11 | He said he had never seen the drugs before , claiming he had picked up the syringe after seeing it lying around before the party . |
| 12 | I also found an envelope lying around in the bathroom the other day with a list of numbers on the back , and when I asked her about it , she took it silently out of my hand . |
| 13 | Gould was fascinated by its habit of collecting all the rubbish lying around in the shrubberies and borders , and then building a huge incubating mound in the middle of the lawn . |
| 14 | The reason why people are willing to spend money and time looking at the geology of Lake Tocarno of course is that some of our ancestors are lying around in the rocks and people are therefore very keen on getting accurate dating of the fossils and one way of doing that is to get erm accurate datings of changes in other fossils that you can co-ordinate with them . |