Object

• mile: Kufah lies 10 miles northeast of Najaf, a major Shiite religious center.

Converse of object

• tell: Should they tell a lie or act a lie?

Adjective complement

• prostrate: Men, women children, all lay prostrate like ears of corn under a tempest.

Preposition: at

• heart: Dillon seeks refuge from his hostile classmates in the wood that seems to lie at the very heart of the mystery.

Preposition: in

• ruin: Cities lay in ruins and the country was in no condition to begin rebuilding.

Adjective modifier

• blatant: This is a blatant lie and misleading as European Regulation once agreed by the Commission MUST be implemented into National compliance.

• barefaced: Both were barefaced lies whose falsity was always pretty obvious, but was also rapidly exposed by the failure to find WMDs.

Preposition: on

• couch: During the scan, you will be asked to lie very still on a couch inside a metal cylinder.

• seabed: The accommodation and bridge block have become detached from the hull and now lie separately on the seabed several yards away from the hull.

Adjective complement

• adjacent: No significant nucleated settlement has survived at either of the early manorial centers, both of which lie adjacent to their respective parish churches.

• flat: If you have a newborn you want to be sure the seat fully reclines so your newborn can lie flat.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: Do not let him lie down or tilt his head backward.

Modifies a noun

• detector: He has given us his Word to use as a lie detector.