lie in BrE **
sleep in AmE *

They'll lie here in the sun with the color of the water about them.

Then I had to find a place to lie in wait for him.

How can anything happen if you lie in bed all the time.

Your life does not lie with me in any case.

Or would I lie here in the street until the police found me?

He did not have too much time to lie in wait.

But the important difference may lie in the subject of the show.

Or perhaps some experience lies in their past which has made them what they are.

She was lying in the dark with her back to the door.

But you found the dead man lying in the road.