She looked down at the floor; a dead man's hand lay between them.

He looked toward the wall that lay between the study and the living room.

A large hill lay between them and where they were going.

The problem was that the school lay right between them.

Instead, it simply lay between the trees and did not move.

What lay between us that I should feel this way?

What was it he had said about the many years that lay between himself and his old friend?

But the whole main street lay between my house and the bus stop.

Another wall lay between it and the next garden to the west.

It was clear that more than language differences lay between them.