Example sentences of "been lying in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 2 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 3 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 4 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 5 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 6 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 7 | The water was close , I could almost have been lying in it . |
| 8 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 9 | The scumniks , who had been lying in wait for prey , used stubguns , grenades — then , at close quarters , a chainsword and knives . |
| 10 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 11 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 12 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 13 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 14 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 15 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |
| 16 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 17 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |