COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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He would have lain down and been rolled over and that is why he must never be Prime Minister.
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She had passed out there-or perhaps just lain down and drifted into sleep.
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He had come in at the door, he had lain down with her, he had been her lover.
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She would have lain down except that the benches had iron arms every two feet.
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After a couple of hours, Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep.
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For Louis, Antoinette had kicked off her buttoned high-heeled shoes by the wine racks and lain down on gritty sand.
there
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Actually, if I hadn't gone to check her, Hereward might have lain there till Sunday.
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Two hours she had lain there - two whole hours of torment.
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The bed with the black silk sheets still bore the indentations of two bodies that had once lain there .
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It was still early in the morning, 8.30 or so, and he supposed she had lain there all night.
■ NOUN
bed
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She had lain on her bed at her farmhouse home on January 2 and put a double-barrelled shotgun to her head.
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We had lain in the same bed for a whole night, and she told me the story of her life.
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He had lain in bed night after night drifting into sleep on a tide of euphoria.
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That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance.
night
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For months, I have lain awake nights , wondering why this critical cultural need was not being addressed.
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He had lain in bed night after night drifting into sleep on a tide of euphoria.
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I have lain awake all night waiting to get back to these words and I have now read them a dozen times.
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It was still early in the morning, 8.30 or so, and he supposed she had lain there all night .
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She had lain awake the night before, thinking, if only I'd made Dan stay.
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He must have lain awake all night .
years
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In it was a single bed and also the cradle in which she and Jessie had lain many years ago.
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Within a few months, seeds - which had lain dormant for many years - germinated.