Example sentences of "[conj] lay back on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the question was put , the Earl shouted ‘ not content ’ , and lay back on the buttonback red benches to await the division . |
| 2 | He smiled contentedly and lay back on the couch . |
| 3 | Muttering about the appalling decline in standards since she was last in Lisbon , Maria Candida knelt to help Sara off with her shoes , and while she did so , Sara sighed and lay back on the feather bed . |
| 4 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 5 | Julia obeyed , amused at his fatherliness , and lay back on the pillow . |
| 6 | A servant girl brought me up water , I washed and lay back on the bed to rest before dinner . |
| 7 | She pushed the tray off her knees and lay back on the pillow . |
| 8 | When he had gone , she turned the light off and lay back on the bed , still in her dress if not her knickers , staring at the ceiling . |
| 9 | Ronni sighed and lay back on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread . |
| 10 | The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her . |