Example sentences of "lying [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The woman is either the temptress or is lying about her consent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 5 | I wanted to join up , like you — I even tried lying about my age , but I did n't have any luck . ’ |
| 6 | I attribute it to frequent and energetic sex , to our not having children , to my habit of deferring to him , and lying about my actions , my whereabouts , my politics , my emotions and my orgasms . |
| 7 | The US Internal Revenue Service is accusing him of lying about his accounts from 1983 to 1986 . |
| 8 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 9 | Admiral Poindexter , charged with lying about his role in the affair , says he was acting under Mr Reagan 's orders . |
| 10 | " They 're lying about your cabin , and you have n't even looked at most of them . " |
| 11 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 12 | He turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy , only to see a rat the size of a rabbit lying between his legs . |
| 13 | I looked down and saw her lying between my legs , she was so small . |
| 14 | ‘ The man is too self-centred to lie for anyone else 's sake , and he had nothing to gain by lying for his own . ’ |
| 15 | I know enough about geophysics to say that these people are lying through their teeth when they claim they can eventually guarantee long-term safety underground . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , Lavender , you 'll soon catch up , ’ Miss Honey said , lying through her teeth . |
| 17 | Their Liberal and Labour opponents , whose foreign policy clothes had been so comprehensively stolen , were reduced to assertions — unconvincing to most voters — that the Government was lying through its teeth . |
| 18 | He might still be saying — lying through his teeth — that her breasts were as firm as ever . |
| 19 | lying through his teeth |
| 20 | ‘ You 're lying through your teeth , ’ he ground out . |
| 21 | ‘ You , Fernando Serra , are either lying through your teeth , putting on a brave face or you have the same loose sort of arrangement with your mistress as you accused me of having with Steve . ’ |
| 22 | I suppose in theory I could be lying through my teeth and have some other reason for wanting to go to Strathspeld — maybe I 'm just getting homesick for Scotland — but I 'm certain he knows that I 'm not lying and that there is a body ; I think he can see it in my eyes . |
| 23 | He could not see any but noticed a little bottle lying amongst his bits and pieces . |
| 24 | He leaned forward until his head was lying against her shoulder . |
| 25 | He carried her effortlessly , and lying against his heart brought such vivid happiness that the journey down the stairs and across the courtyard was over much too soon . |
| 26 | After three days without food , Campana 's men were reduced to scavenging any remnants they could find upon the bodies lying near their position . |
| 27 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
| 28 | If ever you see bream at the surface moving in several different directions , or merely lying with their backs or just the tip of their dorsal fins out of the water , or cruising sedately along , then they are not rolling or feeding bream . |
| 29 | When the mother is lying with her kittens , reassuring them that all is well . |
| 30 | James Parke surveyed the situation : HMS Impregnable was lying with her bow pointing northeast , the hull was intact , although she was firmly imbedded in the soft seabed . |