Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was lying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he woke he was lying in Dad 's bed . |
| 2 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 3 | before I knew it she was suffocating she was lying across my neck . |
| 4 | The humour , I think , came from the fact that at the time of asking I was lying with my head near the ground and my feet near the ceiling and the man in question had most of his right hand in my mouth , his other hand on a high-power drill and his knee wedged round his own spittoon . |
| 5 | ‘ I bet you thought I was lying about the work to do , and all ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The next she knew she was lying in a room with one of the students from Usher standing by her bed . |
| 8 | Well when the hay was dry , th it was raked up it was all er When it was cut it was lying in what we called swathes , you see ? |
| 9 | The next thing he knew he was lying on the floor , half stunned , beans everywhere . |
| 10 | They said he was lying in the road . |