Example sentences of "[prep] it lay [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 2 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 3 | A large white bed dominated the room , and within it lay a porcelain-pale figure , propped up by banks of pillows , its shadowy eyes wide open . |
| 4 | Beyond it lay the tiny garden , the lawn neatly trimmed , delphinia and gladioli , irises and hemerocallis in bloom in the dark earth borders . |
| 5 | On it lay a cellophaned wallet of Guyland press handouts — this was where I 'd scribbled his number . |
| 6 | On it lay the Vietnamese manservant , moaning quietly and holding a surgical dressing to his thigh . |
| 7 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |