1.   A wooden box lay beneath and tiny black things fled across its surface from the exposing light.

2.   As we travel through life, we begin to realize that grief and deep disappointments lie beneath the surface of our lives.

3.   I sensed all this profoundly when I first began to think about what might lie beneath the surface of the oceans.

4.   Peeling this back from one corner, he was astonished at what lay beneath.

5.   The thin gown of emerald green silk was quite inadequate to the task of concealing what lay beneath.

6.   The water lies just beneath the surface of the earth.

7.   The wooded gardens lie beneath the Verdala Palace, a moated medieval castle.

8.   Untapped reserves of oil and minerals are thought to lie beneath the desert.

9.   Water, not solid ground, lay beneath.

10.   What of that other world, the world of the distant past that now lies beneath our feet?