Example sentences of "lying [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She considered lying down on the floor , covered with fallen dresses , and waited for their touch on her neck . |
| 2 | Gould remembers following the driver and lying down on the floor of the car face down , waiting for the ambush to pass . |
| 3 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 4 | He 's lying down on the floor having a nice lie down are n't you Toby ? |
| 5 | ‘ Laura ! ’ he groaned , tossing aside his shirt and swiftly divesting himself of his clothes before lying down on the bed beside her . |
| 6 | The authorities also drafted regulations to circumscribe public activity in Tiananmen Square itself , which included the prohibition of any memorial activity and of " joking and playing , sitting and lying down on the ground " . |
| 7 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 8 | Freudian dream analysis proceeded by the patient 's lying down on the couch , and in as relaxed a frame of mind as possible recounting his or her dream , and then considering the dream images in turn , providing free associations to the object represented . |
| 9 | He decided to throw himself off the parapet of the bridge instead of lying down on the track . |
| 10 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 11 | It was less easy to convince herself that the thought of lying down on the bench with fitzAlan , with hardly a stitch of clothing between them , did n't scare the wits out of her . |
| 12 | ‘ So are you well , Wilson ? ’ she asked , lying back on the sofa , white and drained-looking . |
| 13 | Peter was lying back on the sofa , doing nothing in particular . |
| 14 | Herself , lying back on the punt cushions . |
| 15 | Bone lying out on the surface of the ground is subject to a number of processes . |
| 16 | ‘ When the poor man was asleep , someone came upstairs and began to pull the thread attached to the slow fuse which was left lying out on the gallery . |
| 17 | The increased use of personal computers means that files of secret information may be left lying around on a cassette or floppy disc in unlocked offices or at the homes of executives . |
| 18 | I think they thought they would find the treasure lying around on the beach ! |
| 19 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 20 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 21 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 22 | So if you cut your toenails do n't leave them lying around on the floor , do n't make too much noise if you have to use the slop bucket at night and if you 're a shit-stabber then I 'll tell you now , my arsehole is n't for rent . |
| 23 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 24 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |
| 25 | The men and women lying around on the ground were roughly shaken awake . |
| 26 | He put his huge right hand on her polished gold kneecaps , because it suddenly looked ridiculous lying around on the arm of a chair , and said , ’ No . ’ |
| 27 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 28 | I could leave everything lying about on the floor and nothing would get broken ! |