Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was lying [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was a warm , spring morning and I was lying in the garden , reflecting on life in general and taking it easy , when I heard this music coming from the top-floor flat where the windows were all open — and there was somebody singing .
2 It was a warm , sunny afternoon four years ago , and she was lying on her back in the park feeling too weak to move .
3 She was very old and she was lying on her back , her feet towards me .
4 And then they were gone and he was lying in the snow of a mountainside , alone and cold .
5 ( He says : We looked through his frontwqindow and he was lying in a pool of blood .
6 One note paused on Creed 's shoulder , then launched itself again , one long swoop sideways , a flip , and it was lying on the ground .
7 I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar
8 It was Eric who first invented the Flame-thrower , and it was lying in what was then the bicycle-shed ( now my shed ) when our cousin , who had come to spend the weekend with us along with his parents , decided it would be fun to ride Eric 's bike into the soft mud at the south end of the island .
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