1.   He lay fast asleep, surrounded by flames and smoke.

2.   Shiona blinked her eyes open, half wondering if this was a nightmare, her gaze flickering automatically to the upper bunk where Kirsty was still lying peacefully asleep.

3.   Nearly two months ago, while she lay asleep in her house in Milton Keynes, thieves broke in and took her cheque book and card.

4.   Boone lies asleep at my feet.

5.   In a videotape of a patient they made for their research, a young woman lay asleep in her bed.

6.   On it a nude woman meant to symbolize Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, lay ostensibly asleep.

7.   Others lay asleep in their wheelchairs, their hands occasionally moving to a stray beat.

8.   The only living creatures to be seen were two dogs lying asleep in the rubble and a group of fighters skinning a cow.