Sentence examples for but it lay from inspiring English sources

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But it lay in his easy physicality too.

Tira texted Stolarsky their location, then placed her smartphone on the table between them, but it lay dark.

They, too, carried a flag but it lay limp in the dead air, and Early could not tell whether the troops were friend or foe.

Concentration is the natural drift in a market system, but it lay dormant or was held in check through most of the last century.

It was a derelict plant nursery with a few shabby buildings and concrete yards, but it lay amid the picturesque tea fields of the district of Longjing, or Dragon Well.

He composed "Sigurd" before "The Hobbit," but it lay among his papers until after his death, when his son Christopher began the great exhuming that has been Tolkien's posthumous career.

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The house he built there in 1892 still survives, but it lies vacant and in disrepair, its future uncertain.

Its limits are not exactly determined, but it lies mainly between the south bend of the Loa River and the mountains separating the Salado-Copiapó drainage basins.

It's silk and cashmere, but it lies like a blouse.

They raised a substantial sum, but it lies unspent in a bank.

Something significant is happening, but it lies below the surface of the headlines.

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