Example sentences of "[pers pn] lying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And here was I lying in bed counting my fifty-seven get well cards ! |
| 2 | When yu lying on me beach |
| 3 | The area has a large common seal population , and there are always lots of them lying on the rocks or swimming in the sea . |
| 4 | Then he saw them lying on the ground , but not complete clubs , just the heads with their covers on , protruding from a detachable section that could be removed to expose the empty cylinder of the golf-bag . |
| 5 | just , just , left them lying on the floor . |
| 6 | Why 's one of them lying on her back ? |
| 7 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 8 | Her goal was not to rest , ’ he said sadly , finding me lying on the sofa with a book . |
| 9 | in Barbados and er some young chaps had saw me lying on the beach and er they stole my bag and they stuck a gun in my face and freeze lady , you do n't do any thing , you just let them take what they want and its a horrible feeling when your there , we were there for three weeks and it just totally spoiled the holiday but the ramifications of it do n't just stop once you got on the plane home , it was very frightening |
| 10 | Even now I 'm struggling to stop myself going for a jaunt around the room though I know this will inevitably lead to me lying on my bed or sitting on the floor in a mesmerised , trancelike way and staring into nothingness as if stoned . |
| 11 | By the time it gets to the papers or my manager at Arsenal , it 's me lying in the gutter . ’ |
| 12 | What you lying for ? |
| 13 | ‘ Are you lying to me , Carver ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw you lying in front of that bush . |
| 16 | ‘ I was thinking what 's the point you lying in the sun if you swathe yourself up like a woman in purdah . |
| 17 | In the eyes of this boy he and his wife were probably ridiculous , she lying on a sun-chair , he old and out of touch with the world . |
| 18 | Was she lying like this receiving intravenous fluids and simply waiting till the haemorrhaging stopped ? |
| 19 | All night Gustave watched beside his sister 's corpse : she lying in her white wedding-dress , he sitting and reading Montaigne . |
| 20 | I looked down and saw her lying between my legs , she was so small . |
| 21 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 22 | Mr Popple had found her lying on the bathroom floor upon returning from the Lamb and Flag . |
| 23 | Defries found her lying on her back , eyes open . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr. Preston , if I may say so that was pretty cold blooded of you to leave her lying on the floor until I came in . ’ |
| 25 | She took another step forward , and saw the few personal items she had brought with her lying on the floor . |
| 26 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 27 | They tied her up and left her lying on the lounge floor . |
| 28 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 29 | He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead , the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated . |
| 30 | ‘ I found her lying with her head on a little chair and half lying on the floor . |