Example sentences of "she [was/were] lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was already back : she was lying under a blanket on the bed . |
| 2 | She was lying on a large double bed , her belly huge and swollen . |
| 3 | When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her . |
| 4 | She was lying on a hard surface . |
| 5 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 6 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |
| 7 | She was lying on the carpet , the lips of her cunt , soft and blunt , pushing up through a mound of black curls . |
| 8 | She was lying on the cushions , smoking a cigarette and paying no attention to him . |
| 9 | She was lying on the edge of the bed far from Tom and had not known it was Tom 's bed and Tom 's room or that she was not alone , but had been cast at once , as usual , into that incredulous panic where she was asking herself , how could I have left Mike ? |
| 10 | Of how she was lying on the ground , for example ? ’ |
| 11 | She was lying on the sofa and he was — I do n't know — doing something to her . |
| 12 | And it was on the floor but she was lying on the bottle . |
| 13 | She was lying on an examination couch before she realised that he had undressed , as well . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was lying near a window overlooking a garden full of sunshine and green . |
| 16 | How strange it was , when you thought about it , that she was lying in a bed with this particular man . |
| 17 | The next she knew she was lying in a room with one of the students from Usher standing by her bed . |
| 18 | When she came to she was lying in a strange bed in a strange room , and she sat bolt upright , gripped by panic . |
| 19 | She was lying in a freezing ditch , still with her pet dog , four days after she left home to take it for a walk . |
| 20 | She was lying in the mouth of the great arched chamber Buddie used as a tool-shed . |
| 21 | When we got there she was lying in the front room . |
| 22 | Faced with actually going back to the barn , she was not now so serene about it as she had been when she was lying in the field and gazing at the sky . |
| 23 | She was lying in the bath , all underwater save her face , chewing the last crust of the loaf . |