Example sentences of "lying on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved the pen lying on the blotter in front of him slightly to one side . |
| 2 | More flakes sifted down like meal , sifted and sifted , drifting in at the embrasure and lying on the flagstones , unmelting . |
| 3 | The young , dark man looked at it lying on the floor . |
| 4 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 5 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 6 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 7 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 8 | He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . |
| 9 | As I approached I recognised one of them as a Medic from Brigade H.Q As we chatted together , I could see a number of dead Commandos lying on the lawn in front of the Chateau . |
| 10 | Stretcher bearers were quickly on the scene , taking two wounded Commandos away and leaving Jock lying on the grass . |
| 11 | When I came across Lovat he was lying on the ground . |
| 12 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 13 | He was lying on the ground covered with a blanket when I arrived , the medics were preparing to place the body on a jeep . |
| 14 | I stood frozen to the spot unable to do anything ; I could see soldiers diving for cover ; the Frenchman who was coming towards me with a smile on his bearded face was now lying on the ground . |
| 15 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 16 | Lying on the bed , naked and waiting , Maggie lost her nerve . |
| 17 | Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . |
| 18 | In this world of clean fast-running water , of inimitable oaks and meadows which made the Bayeux tapestry look like a traycloth , there was no place for somersaulted cars and carnage and broken bodies lying on the wet and bloody tarmac . |
| 19 | There 's this poor devil , this corpse , you see , lying on the table with his guts laid open and all these students … ’ |
| 20 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 21 | He was lying on the path . |
| 22 | She 's lying on the bed , blowing smoke at the ceiling . |
| 23 | I 'm real stiff from lying on the bench , so I get up and stretch . |
| 24 | I du n no what I 'm doing lying on the floor , getting all dirty . |
| 25 | I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning . |
| 26 | I was lying on the ground almost like a dead body . |
| 27 | Kugelbaum came across a football lying on the pavement . |
| 28 | Mr Foster , also of Barnes , was found lying on the floor with the knife that had killed him under his body . |
| 29 | THE Christmas tree lying on the side of the pavement and shorn of its decorations is not only a forlorn sight but also symbolic of a gigantic disposal problem as America 's landfills rapidly run out of space . |
| 30 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |