Anaya lay in the bed for a long time.

阿纳亚在床上躺了很长时间。

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The man himself lay in the bed.

那男人躺在床上。

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A young lady lay in the bed, awake.

一位妇女躺在床上，醒着。

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So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."

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Brown lay in a bed in the courtroom throughout the trial.

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Known for being gregarious, he chatted up his physician on the subject of alchemy as he lay dying in bed at the age of seventy.

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One summer afternoon in Delhi, as the father lay in bed, his health in rapid decline, Manglik's sister Kalpana visited his bedside to read him a passage she had penned in a biography she was writing about him.

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He said Gilliard had got the statue from the garden and the knife from the kitchen before going upstairs to attack his wife in the bedroom as she lay on the bed.

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