YOU SAID:
My country lay within a vast desert.
INTO JAPANESE
私の国は広大な砂漠の中に横たわっていた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My country lay in a vast desert.
INTO JAPANESE
私の国は広大な砂漠に横たわっていた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My country was lying in a vast desert.
INTO JAPANESE
私の国は広大な砂漠に横たわっていた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My country was lying in a vast desert.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.