Example sentences of "[pers pn] lay [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it . |
| 2 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 3 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 4 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 5 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 6 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 7 | They lay for a little , amicably holding hands . |