Example sentences of "lying [prep] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | when she opened her eyes she was lying on one of the seats inside the shelter , and — horror of horrors ! — a huge crowd had collected . |
| 2 | Greg is lying on one of the Palace 's luxuriant couches , gesticulating wildly and fixing me with a stare that is part ultimate artistic earnestness and part repressed pathological violence . |
| 3 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 4 | She was lying on one of the sofas in the drawing-room . |
| 5 | Lying by one of the cups , like a plaster cast . |