Example sentences of "lie [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we get home Penny goes to check on Heather and if she 's asleep , lies down quietly by the cot and waits for her to wake up so she can come and tell us . |
| 2 | He thought of Pearce , swept away and eviscerated ; lying down there in the basement like some horrifying animal-skin rug . |
| 3 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 4 | Ride to Langholm in Eskdale this first night , then lie up there over the morrow . |
| 5 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 6 | You could have been lying out there in the farmyard all night ! ’ |
| 7 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 8 | The targets were frequently altered , bomb loads changed , keeping the armourers constantly on the run with bombs lying about all over the field . |
| 9 | ’ Its noisy and there 's always loads of equipmenjt lying about all over the place , but it 's great fun . ’ |
| 10 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 11 | And Durbeyfield lay back comfortably on the grass . |
| 12 | Eleanor Thorne lay back again on the high pillows , and her nut-brown face was petulant . |
| 13 | He frowned down at her as she lay back self-consciously against the pillows . |
| 14 | If he went round by either the footbridge or the traffic bridge it would take him longer since the wherry lay about half-way between the two . |
| 15 | The Hyades , extending from the bright orange star Aldebaran in Taurus ( the Bull ) cover a much wider area than the Pleiades , and are also somewhat overpowered by Aldebaran , which does not actually belong to the cluster at all , but merely happens to lie about midway between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 16 | Night after night they had lain out there in the soft , scented warmth , looking at the stars , or lighting candles stuck in Rufus 's wine bottles , eating and drinking , talking , hoping and happy . |
| 17 | That meant there was no hurry , they could have lain out there in the sun till the pubs opened . |