Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silver case lay on the arm of the chair . |
| 2 | The strength of the Welf party lay on the lower Rhine and in the Netherlands and especially in the support of Cologne and of its archbishop , for Cologne had strong trading ties with England . |
| 3 | A stretch of mown grass lay between the palings and the road , and on hot days the children left their stony playground and lay and rolled on the grass just outside . |
| 4 | One of Andrew Jean 's beehive combs lay on the dressing table in a spread of pills and lipsticks . |
| 5 | He held an untidy bundle of towel and swimming trunks in his hand and a tennis racket lay on the back seat where he had obviously just flung it . |
| 6 | Another major block of duchy land lay along the Aire , from the soke of Snaith in the east , through Pontefract to Leeds and Bradford , with the forest of Knaresborough an outrider further north . |
| 7 | Another major block of duchy land lay along the Aire , from the soke of Snaith in the east , through Pontefract to Leeds and Bradford , with the forest of Knaresborough an outrider further north . |
| 8 | A Scrabble board lay on the floor , a reminder that so far this year Buzz was beating Elinor by 147 to 17 . |
| 9 | When she reached her room Lucy lay on the bed to review the situation , the main point occupying her mind being the fact that Silas was not yet married to Doreen . |
| 10 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 11 | The roots of the trade and transit dispute lay in the Nepalese decision to purchase weaponry from China in 1988 , a move which seriously offended India 's security perceptions . |
| 12 | We rested in a village at lunchtime where the phone lines lay across the side of the road and stretched into a field , and where the mayor welcomed us , his red face glowing underneath a huge fur hood . |
| 13 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 14 | The strength of the previous external verification arrangements lay in the expertise and the flexibility of the three teams of external verifiers . |
| 15 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 16 | Angevin interests lay in the support of the Welfs as the strongest power in north Germany , who might help them to maintain the crumbling Angevin empire . |
| 17 | Radical changes in Defence policy lay at the root of Macmillan 's aspirations . |
| 18 | The biggest difference from the corresponding Corporation cars lay in the bogies , which were of Brush 's own design and were reversed with the driving wheels nearest the centre of the car . |
| 19 | A heavy iron bar lay on the floor beside my left hand . |
| 20 | But when she brushed her hair out of her face and peered cautiously over at the bench Guy lay in the same position , completely unmoving . |
| 21 | In his view , the root cause lay in the revolt of the weak , not in the economic interests of the strong . |
| 22 | A high velocity rifle lay beside the remains of Steve . |
| 23 | The dominant power behind the movement in church building lay with the monastic orders who developed their own individual style ( on Romanesque patterns ) to suit the needs of the order . |
| 24 | The Plaster Room lay beyond the A.R.R.U. It was quiet in there . |
| 25 | The main reason for buoyant government revenues lay in the increasing returns from VAT and other taxes on the consumer , and on increasing Corporation Tax returns from business profits . |
| 26 | An address book lay by the telephone on a writing-desk by the door . |
| 27 | The screwed up remains of another airline 's rejection letter lay on the bar next to her cigarettes . |
| 28 | Van Cleef was wonderfully evil and perhaps not a little of Eastwood 's taciturn appeal lay in the compelling menace of his adversary . |
| 29 | The front door and the vestibule door had been blown off and the heavy mahogany coat stand lay across the foot of the stairs . |
| 30 | He said that the key to tackling this employment deficit lay in the bottom-up approach of working with individual , indigenous firms , rather than the old top-down formula of picking winners and targeting particular sectors . |