Sentence examples for while she lies from inspiring English sources

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Had they read Ken Follett, where a man shaves a woman's pussy while she lies in a foam-filled bathtub with her eyes closed?

Here, after a period of estrangement, philandering Cary Grant has inadvertently locked himself into the room of his one-time wife, Irene Dunne, while she lies languorously in bed.

This ruse involves a blaring television and a constant miasma of coffee and cabbage seeping from under her door while she lies low with - what else? - classical music, a good cup of tea, and gourmet cuisine.

"Forgetfulness," Ward Just's fifteenth novel (Houghton Mifflin; $25), from its first pages drops the reader into a level deeper than animated news reports, into the wandering mind of a middle-aged Frenchwoman while she lies freezing and disabled by a broken ankle on the darkening slope of a mountain in the Pyrenees.

The biggest shock comes not from a punch line but from a darkening of the plot, when his ex-girlfriend, Emily (Zoe Kazan), goes to the hospital; while she lies in a coma, Kumail, despite their breakup, befriends her parents — played by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, who make a terrific team — and reconsiders the direction his life should take.

Then all her hair fell out, and she was sick as a parrot, and Billy's looking at his da and his da is looking at him — and, you know, there is nothing wrong with Billy's da, he's a genuinely lovely man — and he is bringing her four hundred cups of green tea a day while she lies on the sofa with a face on her that says, As soon as this is done, then I am out that door.

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For a while, she lay flat on the grass, panting.

For a while she lay on her back, watching the stars come out upon the ceiling of her grotto, listening to the little snores.

Some of those relatives blinked back tears as the judge described how 72-year-old Manuela "Nellie" Fyock was hit in the face and head with tools from her Rialto home--including a hatchet, wrenches and a metal wedge used for splitting wood--while she lay in bed.

The tape of the interview was played repeatedly last week while she lay in intensive care.

The man sexually assaulted her while she lay helpless for 11 hours.

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