Nearby, on the kitchen counter, there lay a rosy leg of jamon iberico.
ITV's Demons starred the admirable Philip Glenister, and there lay its biggest problem.
As for the food, the splendour there lay mostly with the aesthetics.
Right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching.
For more than six months, there lay, in the restaurant's cramped subterranean office, a single wedge espadrille on its side.
In the depths of that terrible winter, Camus wrote, I felt there lay within me an invincible summer.
After 45 minutes the clouds set off west to punish the mainland, and in every direction below there lay a confusion of coral.
Then there was a gap in the scrub, the land fell away, and down, down, well below the eyeline, there lay, unexpected, a winding and noisily rushing river.
But this play confirms that beneath the packaging, the snarling good looks and posing, there lay real integrity, honesty and passion.
In both cases, no weapons were seen, but one clip from a Kalashnikov rifle, dropped or placed there, lay to each body's right.
Who knew that beneath her musical kaftan there lay a vamp-ish sex kitten waiting to lock her predatory bedroom moves against some refined techno funk?
