Example sentences of "[noun prp] lay [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 2 | In his velvet-lined chamber , Piers Gaveston lay under the great , silken canopy of his four-poster bed , chewing his lip and wondering what would happen next . |
| 3 | Delaney , Nell and Andrevitch lay in the cramped area of a bifurcation of the vent , dark , claustrophobic , sweating — but safe . |
| 4 | Coronation Hill lay within the remote Kakadu Conservation Zone , adjacent to the 1,900,00-hectare Kakadu National Park . |
| 5 | As his principal example ( to which the effacement of the jongleur persona could be added ) he noted the removal of deliberate and witty echoes of the characteristic diction of the Breton lay from the French version of Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons : the fairy lande disappears in the Anglo-Norman version , the magic don , " gift " , becomes a mundane guerdon , " reward " , and the fées , " fairies " , become desmoisselles . |
| 6 | Rory got up out of the creaking wooden seat and walked unsteadily over to where Fergus lay on the bare wooden floorboards , head against the ancient , burst couch . |
| 7 | Katherine lay on the white coverlet and read . |
| 8 | Artemis lay in the darkened room . |
| 9 | Hazel lay in the warm , dark burrow with a delightful sense of security . |
| 10 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 11 | Julia lay against the hard , red velvet back of the bench , staring up at the painted walls around her . |
| 12 | For most of the two centuries after Tomislav 's accession in AD 900 , the effective authority of Croatia lay in the coastal region north of Šibenik . |
| 13 | The most striking difference from Smolensk lay in the large numbers of peasant communes : before 1917 most Belorussian farms had belonged to individual families . |
| 14 | Colonel Fergusson lay in the cold square bedroom of his cold square house three miles outside Dublin and listened to the clicking overhead . |
| 15 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 16 | They traded in spices , wool , silk and money at a time when Augsburg and Ingolstadt lay on the main trade route from the Mediterranean to the Baltic . |
| 17 | Some seven hundred miles east of Madagascar , Mauritius lay on the direct sea route to the Spice Islands , and was first settled by the Dutch until the French moved in during 1715 , leaving indelible traces in the form of place names , cuisine , architecture and language . |
| 18 | Claybury lay in the Green Belt around London and therefore money-generating residential or industrial development on any large scale was proscribed . |
| 19 | IN the Hamble , Trixie and Steve lay in the rumpled queen-size double berth of their Catalac catamaran . |
| 20 | Ngune lay on the single mattress in the corner of his cell . |
| 21 | Klift lay beneath the fallen slab , broken in body and mind . |
| 22 | As Thurlstone lay within the medieval parish of Penistone it did not have its own Anglican church until St Saviour 's was built in 1904–5 . |