Example sentences of "and [noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 2 | Delaney , Nell and Andrevitch lay in the cramped area of a bifurcation of the vent , dark , claustrophobic , sweating — but safe . |
| 3 | However , as he gazed lovingly over at his beautiful Laura , gently rocking the tiny babies in her arms , he knew that the true definition of his deep joy and delight lay in the collective noun : a pride of lions ! |
| 4 | He put out the lights and quietly left the room and Maggie lay in the darkness until the moonlight flooded each dark corner . |
| 5 | She wondered , as she washed the dishes and Memet lay on the sofa with his feet on the cushions , whether some ancient warlock had ever discovered a truth drug while digging around among his herbs in the dark of the moon or even whether there was not some artificial chemical compound which would produce the same result and cause her lover to come clean about his dealings with women . |
| 6 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 7 | In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused . |
| 8 | The wind was fresh , and although there was no rain , there were puddles along the length of the chestnut avenue , and water lay in the furrows of the ploughed fields . |
| 9 | The Hungarians attempted to create a marcher zone to protect their frontier against the Turks by supporting Bosnian resistance in the area between Jajce and the Sava , but after the battle of Mohács in 1526 these pockets of resistance soon collapsed and virtually all Bosnia and Hercegovina lay under the rule of the sultans until the late nineteenth century . |
| 10 | In Sussex both Lewes and Steyning lay at the foot of the South Downs on the edge of the Weald . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | B. Railway building in Devon and Cornwall was expensive because the main rivers and valleys lay across the east-west route along which most people wanted to travel . |
| 13 | IN the Hamble , Trixie and Steve lay in the rumpled queen-size double berth of their Catalac catamaran . |
| 14 | Carrier bag and coat lay on the kitchen table beside the attaché case . |
| 15 | A set of surgical tools and syringes lay on the white-sheeted top , and she focused on a scalpel with a small but wickedly sharp blade . |
| 16 | Two small bunches of carnations and daffodils lay in the common close entrance yesterday , bearing the simple messages ‘ Sorry to hear the sad news , ’ and ‘ Rest in peace ’ . |
| 17 | Some , such as Robert Owen , among socialists , and conservatives such as Thomas Carlyle , had argued from the beginning of industrial capitalism in Britain that the source of the unequal distribution of wealth , income and power lay in the competitive , individualistic nature of the new economic system and the values it perpetuated and strengthened : the emphasis upon individual rather than co-operative effort , upon self-help for all rather than upon mutual obligation , such as the responsibility of the rich to help the poor in return for their labour . |
| 18 | The small grey and red-edged squares of the pamphlet and Time lay on the pale carpet of needles . |
| 19 | The confidence was breathtaking : Beauty , convenience and comfort lay in the promise of new ways of doing things in rationally planned large towns , where the public would now be protected ‘ from the results of selfish or short-sighted exploitation ’ ( Boumphrey , 1940 , p. 152 ) . |