Example sentences of "lay [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 2 | He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out . |
| 3 | Delighted about Jim , apprehensive for Jasper , Alice lay for a long time awake in the silent room . |
| 4 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 5 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 6 | We climbed the low hills northwest of the loch and lay in the long grass under the pines and the birch , looking out over the small glen to the forested hill on the far side where the old railway tunnel was . |
| 7 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |