Whatever had happened to me, the answer lay there - if anywhere.

It was clear that the answers to his questions lay in the future.

If disease was not responsible, then perhaps the answer lay with a physical cause such as air pollution.

As was so often the case, the answer lay in the distant past.

And the answers to all her questions lay just beyond the light.

The answer, he said, lay in culture and education, with the Japanese being taught they were a race apart.

The lawyer suddenly realized that the answer lay behind him.

He could only hope that the answers lay ahead of them.

The answer, he knew, lay somewhere inside or outside the station.

The true answer to that question lay down there in the ruins.