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    lying


    1. Matt: 9:2: And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said


    2. “Murderer! You killed them! My babies are lying dead in the dumpster! How could you?”


    3. “I wasn’t lying about keeping mutants in here


    4. ‘When he returned he found his wife lying in the garden – she had been shot


    5. coming home to find her lying there in the garden


    6. She is lying on the floor, halfway out of her sleeping bag


    7. Stephen’s comment in the car about my job being on the line is coming back to me now … on the floor I can see a letter with the school crest on it lying where I dropped the post


    8. Emma witters on, fussing about coming to see me later in the week while I half listen, my thoughts on the letter lying just out of reach


    9. He says he left for the rehearsal just after seven and that she was alive then … there is no doubt that he stayed in view of someone the whole time he was at the rehearsal and that Joanna was lying in the garden when he returned home


    10. John looks inside, sees an emaciated body lying in the bed, then slowly turns his attention to the face

    11. Despite the wasted and spare frame, the man lying in the bed is unmistakably John himself


    12. John looks back at comatose John lying in bed and the man in bed slowly turns his head, raises up slightly, looks


    13. Zitteraal looks back once more at the comatose patient, John West, lying in bed with his eyes closed


    14. John picks up a book lying nearby, throws it at the wall


    15. He is leaned against a few pillows, staring straight ahead, and she is lying across his chest, looking up at him, watching him carefully


    16. ’ he said, lying back in the chair and closing his eyes


    17. John, lying on one side of the bed, wakes, slowly opens his eyes


    18. Majeed tries to stand unsteadily, picks up his I-POD lying on the roof of the bus


    19. door, and a very bald and tattered grey felt mouse lying by a pot rack next to the


    20. Lying cosily under the bedclothes, I cast my mind back over the last couple of days – Monday had been a long day what with one thing and another

    21. He spies Khalid lying on his back in some scrubby bushes near the flaming wreckage, runs to him


    22. displays all symptoms of a bad flu, you will not be lying


    23. She was lying nude on her beach, though it was actually in Ava's universe, only a few steps from the magic carpet of her entry hall


    24. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had


    25. The first field we come to is full of cows, most of them lying down chewing the cud in the warm sunshine


    26. They had some tour probes lying about down there, she flew one for awhile


    27. ’ I said, indicating the one lying on the bed


    28. "You're pretty comfortable with the whole cloning thing now aren't you?" The mechanical replica lying in a lab at the Kassikan was a replica of this Ava, not the one who separated from her when they went to B, eight years ago in her time-line


    29. A while later, lying drowsily in his arms, I notice with disbelief what the time is


    30. ‘She looked so terribly vulnerable, Mum, lying there with bandages everywhere

    31. Despite that, I can see Liz lying in the bed


    32. ‘Patience is not a virtue I am blessed with, I’m afraid, and lying here for hour on end with only my thoughts is not good


    33. Jubei ---> Yes, I have not because lying, this world seems


    34. I’ve had a lot of time to think about that one while lying here


    35. All relatives are in her old house, while she is lying inside a coffin on the big table


    36. He is lying next to me in bed now, he is restless, he shouts, he puts his legs on my chest, he molests me


    37. Lying in bed, floating in a sea of alcohol and partying, something is nagging at the back of my head …


    38. So, while Betty and I drag the boxes of decorations out of the cupboard where they live during the rest of the year, the men bring in the barrel used for the tree which is kept in Fred’s shed for some reason I cannot fathom, and the tree itself which has been lying in my drive for the last two days resulting in me having to park in the car park but that was a minor inconvenience, though I didn’t think so when I left my mobile in the car and only discovered it an hour later by which time the rain was pouring down


    39. From here I can see the village lying snugly in its valley bounded by hills on all sides, the largest lying to the south – Crook Peak with it’s knob of rock on the top


    40. As it happens, I end up on the sofa with my feet tucked under me and Nick’s arm loosely lying round my shoulders

    41. It occurs to me maybe Helen is lying and sabotaged my meeting with George, yet I prefer to suppress this suspicion quickly


    42. Lying on the stage with him and looking as stunned as he did were Diam, Enrico and someone he barely recognized from astrophysics


    43. ‘She was just lying there


    44. The room was darker when she woke again and a different young woman was there, slumped in the chair, the book she had been reading lying loose in her hand


    45. He sighed and raised his eyes to the battered woman lying in the hospital bed


    46. head and struck the earth where he had been lying


    47. Unbidden, the sensation of Joris lying beside her appeared in her head


    48. They were still lying closely together, she with her arm over his chest


    49. Alfred was pretty sure this was more good evidence that the naked captain was lying to protect Alan and knew it


    50. As far as he was concerned this was final proof that the woman was lying














































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    Synonyms for "lying"

    fabrication lying prevarication

    "lying" definitions

    the deliberate act of deviating from the truth