1.   Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality, slapping it down, groaning.

2.   For here lay no more than a piece of meat, oblivious, inanimate, an object to be examined without reverence.

3.   For weeks he lay flat in his canoe while friends retraced their way back with him to Lake Michigan.

4.   Hands linked behind her head, she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day.

5.   He had suspected her of lying for some time.

6.   He rolled across the grass and lay for a minute in total, unrelieved darkness, the wind roaring in his ears.

7.   I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it.

8.   I would lie for hours in my sea grey with the remains of bubble bath.

9.   In fact, no one seems to know exactly where future career opportunities lie for this new breed.

10.   She lay still for a moment, holding her breath while she listened and assembled the information from her senses.