Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] was lying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept thinking cos I was , was n't very well Saturday so I was lying on the settee thinking well I hope it ai n't me . |
| 2 | Once I was lying on the bed I noticed that with the appearance of Aids , there is so much more precaution — every needle , tube , cotton wool swab etc is carefully disposed of . |
| 3 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 4 | When he did , his mouth ravaging hers a peculiarly sweet fierceness , pressing her head back against the pillow , she shuddered uncontrollably and , after a moment 's hesitation , twined her hands behind his head , pulling him down until he was lying on top of her . |
| 5 | He showed no desire to get up and greet me but I was merciless and dragged him inch by inch over the cobbles till he was lying at my feet . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you mean that you started writing Jane Eyre while I was lying in that dark room in Manchester ? ’ |
| 7 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 8 | while he was lying on the massage table after his innings waiting for a doctor , Warner and Palairet called to express sympathy . |
| 9 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 10 | That horn does n't look too good though , he thought , scratching his head and glaring at the disinterested horse , which had stepped back on it while it was lying with the rest of the dismantled bits on the floor of the shed . |
| 11 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 12 | One evening a girl jumped on me when I was lying on my bed in my cubicle . |
| 13 | It was only later , when I was lying in my bed , with the neon lights of a bar across the road flickering on the curtains and music blaring , that I remembered Ward standing in the saloon of the Cutty Sark and asking Iris Sunderby who she had in mind as navigator , who the man was who had convinced her he had also seen a ship locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea . |
| 14 | ‘ I never dreamed I would be here when I was lying in bed getting the chemotherapy with a five to ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 15 | I tell you , a few years ago when I was lying in my hospital bed , one of the things that went through my mind was whether I would be able to drive again . |
| 16 | " When she was lying on her thin pallet at night she screwed her eyes up tight and then she could see his face . |
| 17 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better do a blood glucose straight away , ’ she said as soon as she was lying in bed , with the adjustable part tilted to a gentle angle . |