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The phrase "it lay that" is not correct and not commonly used in written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of location or state, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "It lay that the treasure was buried deep within the forest."
Alternatives: "it was that" or "it happened that".
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But beneath it lay that disgusting, deleting blob.
So still it lay that every day Crawled like a weed-clogged wave: And we forgot the bitter lot That waits for fool and knave, Till once, as we tramped in from work, We passed an open grave.
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And it's not just that the AFP lies; it's how it lies that matters, too.
"It's not the small lies that cause us trouble.
It's just lies - lies that were written into the narration.
"You lie!" That's it.
You could even call it lying - the sort of lying that involves stretching an unlikely possibility into fact.
And some of it lies in that ambiguous area in between".
It lies on that part of the Riviera di Ponente known as the Riviera dei Fiori, northeast of San Remo.
It lies in that catalog of things you do away with without ever knowing exactly how bad they really are.
Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl, Nao.
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