Example sentences of "she lay [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay on the narrow white bed , staring out of the window at the gray-white clouds moving heavily across the October sky , and tried to organize her thinking . |
| 2 | In the attic room she lay on the narrow straw mattress listening to Sally 's snores , watching stars brighten in the charcoal sky and struggling to push away the growing sense of responsibility . |
| 3 | She lay on the heaving ground , frozen for fear of moving . |
| 4 | Hopefully as well as affectionately , he did so ; undressing her as she lay on the too-large hotel bed and stroking her shoulders and upper arms . |
| 5 | She lay across the big bed with her head thrown back so that her long hair fell like a veil of copper across the coverlet . |
| 6 | It was very hot and she lay under the single sheet staring up at the high moonlit ceiling and thinking about T. Buckland Kettering . |
| 7 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 8 | Dreamy and passive , she lay in the scented water and gave in to Adam 's sensual massage . |
| 9 | Waking with a start , she lay in the grey half-light of dawn , wondering where she was . |
| 10 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 11 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |