Example sentences of "she lie on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She lies on her back , her feeling of deadness and detachment increased by watching the reflection in the overhead mirror like a television screen . |
| 3 | She lies on top of me , breathing hard , head on my shoulder for a few minutes , then she stirs , pulls herself up so that I flop out of her and her hard little nipples stroke my chest . |
| 4 | Now she lies on her back , her head propped against one end , her legs bent , her bare feet flat on the cushion . |
| 5 | In the eyes of this boy he and his wife were probably ridiculous , she lying on a sun-chair , he old and out of touch with the world . |
| 6 | After a while , Jay could no longer pick her out against the distant sand , and she lay on the bed , under a sheet , downed the last of her drink , and slept . |
| 7 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 8 | ’ She lay on her bed for hours leading righteous riots of millhands against languid tophatted fops or hardfaced bowlerhatted men of iron and steel . |
| 9 | Hopefully as well as affectionately , he did so ; undressing her as she lay on the too-large hotel bed and stroking her shoulders and upper arms . |
| 10 | She lay on her side , turned away from him , still . |
| 11 | She lay on her back in the darkened room and felt her mind swell with memories . |
| 12 | She lay on the narrow white bed , staring out of the window at the gray-white clouds moving heavily across the October sky , and tried to organize her thinking . |
| 13 | Now she lay on her back with her navy blue knickers still around her knees . |
| 14 | She lay on the table in the doctor 's surgery . |
| 15 | In the attic room she lay on the narrow straw mattress listening to Sally 's snores , watching stars brighten in the charcoal sky and struggling to push away the growing sense of responsibility . |
| 16 | Ruth struggled out of the bunk and , wrapping herself in her shawl , she lay on the floor . |
| 17 | She lay on the chaise longue , fanning herself . |
| 18 | She lay on her back , her usually sallow face rosy , her mouth open and emitting regular snores which , though reasonably genteel , would have horrified her if she had heard them . |
| 19 | She lay on the bed like a white , stranded whale . |
| 20 | She lay on the bank for a long time waiting patiently until she spotted a whopper . |
| 21 | She lay on the pavement staring up at Maura Ryan , amazed . |
| 22 | She lay on her stomach on top of the hay , dusty spikes tickling her ears and her nostrils and said , ‘ I wish I was a farmer , I could go on harvesting for ever and ever and ever . ’ |
| 23 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
| 24 | She lay on the floor and looked into the garden with one eye . |
| 25 | After ten minutes , Miranda 's neckache had vanished : she lay on the rug , her eyes shut ; she felt boneless and sleepy . |
| 26 | In the afternoons she lay on the bed with the canvas bag beside her . |
| 27 | She lay on the heaving ground , frozen for fear of moving . |
| 28 | She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side . |
| 29 | This was better , she thought as she lay on her cot in the farmhouse . |
| 30 | She lay on her back and laughed at the sky . |