1. Usually she lay for ages cocooned in her warm bed.

2. She lay for a minute half in sleep, hall in stupor, and her tongue licked idly at my ear.

3. I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it.

4. He rolled across the grass and lay for a minute in total, unrelieved darkness, the wind roaring in his ears.

5. Hands linked behind her head, she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day.

6. Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it.

7. When the inebriated elk was freed, it lay for a while on the ground, seemingly unconscious.

8. Lydia lay for some time wondering how best to upset him.

9. Simon landed on the wet floor and lay for a moment.

10. In a berth dredged in the harbour she lay for a month.

11. I lay for some time, watching the bustle which succeeded the attack.

12. He lay for some time stunned with the violence of his fall.

13. He lay for some time, without movement, on his side.