Example sentences of "lie [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everything upon which she lies during her impurity shall be unclean ; everything also upon which she sits shall be unclean . |
| 2 | One thing 's for certain — she lies through her teeth every time I ask her something . ’ |
| 3 | The elephant seal mother produces this liquid by transforming the blanket of blubber that lies beneath her skin . |
| 4 | What the mother was really saying was , ‘ I accept that D 's immediate future lies with her foster parents . |
| 5 | She lies with her eyes open , listening to his noisy jerking-off and then his snores . |
| 6 | She has accepted that the survival of the British monarchy now lies with her grandchildren — in Prince William as her natural heir and Prince Harry as the future Duke of York . |
| 7 | I join him in saying that the enforcement of law and order in the Province of Northern Ireland lies with Her Majesty 's Government , the Chief Constable and those who support him . |
| 8 | Her best known novel , Memoirs of the Emperor Hadrian , is a work of scholarship and fiction , but , unlike the narratologists , she believed in the truth of history and the often melancholy tone of her writing lies in her regret that the dead have no more truthful memorial than that which the living can provide . |
| 9 | Her eventual release can only come about through the death of Doc and the proof of her recovery lies in her willingness to participate in a wedding-feast . |
| 10 | Artist Richard Stone has captured in her eyes and the set of her face the steely determination of a woman who knows that the very survival of the monarchy lies in her hands alone . |
| 11 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 12 | The importance of Kittay 's formulation lies in her wide definition of the type of linguistic unit that can be labelled metaphoric . |
| 13 | Her features are pronounced enough already , and much of her attractiveness lies in her sense of style and good grooming . |
| 14 | To facilitate this examination , the woman lies on her back with her legs raised towards her chin and the knees or ankles supported . |
| 15 | She inches to the edge of the bed , he follows ; she lies on her back , his hand attempts to part her furiously dry lips ; she wraps herself in the sheet , the tense warmth of his body suffocates her doubly ; she leaps up and goes to the lavatory , he watches her through the glass wall . |
| 16 | She lies on her back , her feeling of deadness and detachment increased by watching the reflection in the overhead mirror like a television screen . |
| 17 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 18 | Now she lies on her back , her head propped against one end , her legs bent , her bare feet flat on the cushion . |
| 19 | Patient , multi-layering of colour lies at her art 's centre . |
| 20 | Patient , multi-layering of colour lies at her art 's centre . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the fund 's top hand , Rita Lavelle , was accused of harassing an EPA official who criticised the agency 's toxic waste programme , and then of lying about her conduct to inquiring congressmen at later hearings . |
| 22 | The woman is either the temptress or is lying about her consent . |
| 23 | Apart from extra weight , the years had not been unkind although she would n't get away with lying about her dress size for too much longer . |
| 24 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 25 | She was too tall ( taller than the boy by a couple of inches , it was judged ) , too old ( ‘ They lie about her age . |
| 26 | She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ? |
| 27 | Six months later she went to prison as a suffragette , having lied about her age and enrolled as a militant . |
| 28 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 29 | I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't worry , Lavender , you 'll soon catch up , ’ Miss Honey said , lying through her teeth . |