41.   ATLANTA -The first hints of trouble were the slips of paper with telephone numbers Clairee Jones found lying around the apartment.

42.   Basset hounds may lie around the house all day and barely wake up when you come home.

43.   A handsome brochure from your old college suggests you review your estate plan and consider bequeathing any spare Monets or Van Goghs that happen to be lying around.

44.   A new boyfriend was lying around the house, trying to get her attention.

45.   A rosary lay around his neck, and a tube drained fluid from his right lung.

46.   A small but appealing commercial strip lies around Bruckner and Alexander, in the southernmost part of the South Bronx, where antique dealers and artists have moved in.

47.   All of this talk has irritated Aikman, who is usually as congenial as any star who has found strangers lying around his pool can be.

48.   Alligators are not active creatures, and spend most of their days just lying around in the Florida heat doing nothing.

49.   Brown and tattered, with chunks of loose grass lying all around, the storied Centre Court looked like some long-forgotten lawn during a Texas heat wave.

50.   But a guy named Earl says that in college he would impress his dates with large bouquets he happened to find lying around at a local cemetery.