His sculptures often lie close to or on the floor.

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Those unseen and isolated stellar mass black holes that could lie almost as close as the nearest stars.

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His biggest problem on fiscal matters, one close advisor confided, may lie with his own Democrats in the legislature, many of whom are little more than satraps of the public employee interests.

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Shrewdly, Ballard made sure his sea-bottom itinerary took him close to where the Titanic was thought to lie.

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At the top of the stairs she walked sternly and without a glance past the oval mirror and into the bedroom, where I watched her bright reflection lie down on the bed and close her eyes.

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But CNN has learned that the inmate has failed a number of lie detector tests regarding the details -- described by some sources close to the investigation as vague -- of the plot.

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