Miraculously, the key to the whole strange problem lay now in her hands.

Her purse and keys lay on the hall table near the front door.

But the key to it all lay in the fact that I was really just part of a winning team.

The real key to Europe's problems lays in the big question, which is will the single currency live or die.

The key to his dilemma lay in who she was.

As she put it to me, the key to Burma's future lay in two words: hard work.

The company knew that the key to its survival here lay in acceptance by the government and the customer.

The key to everything lay in finding the killer, and that had to be her top priority.

The large key to the door lay on the seat of the chair between them.

He came to the conclusion that the main key to solving health problems lay in the mind.