Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was lying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne 's returning senses told her that she was lying on an old-fashioned sofa with a high back at one end , and no sides . |
| 2 | Jake gathered her to him and rolled over on his back , so that she was lying on her stomach on top of him . |
| 3 | How strange it was , when you thought about it , that she was lying in a bed with this particular man . |
| 4 | Now that she was lying against white sheets her form was visible , albeit vaguely . |
| 5 | He felt them tauten against his palms and suddenly she slid her body over his right knee so that she was lying against him , between his legs . |
| 6 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 7 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 8 | The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field . |
| 9 | But she knew that he was lying to her . |
| 10 | She had known Connor O'Dell for nearly ten years now — she knew him better than anyone in the world — and tonight , she knew without any shadow of doubt that he was lying to her . |
| 11 | She turned her head , staring at him , noting how he looked down rather than meet her eyes , and knew at once that he was lying to her . |
| 12 | ‘ He told our reporter , ’ ’ read Albert laboriously , ‘ ‘ that he was lying in a wolter of blood . ’ |