Sentence examples for but to lie from inspiring English sources

Those who couldn't flee felt they had no choice but to lie still and play dead among the bodies.

The best way to experience "Skymap" is not to stand or to sit, but to lie down, as many in the audience did.

He said he had had no choice but to lie, just as he had no choice but to work in the program.

But to lie prone in a hang-glider harness, exposed to the elements and using only body motions to control the lift and direction of flight, is at once to fulfil man's oldest of dreams and to experience the nearest thing to bird flight.

As I leave, he is sitting in the conservatory with a glass of whisky and ice, and to illustrate the joys of life without work, quoting his beloved Yeats: "Toil and grow rich / What's that but to lie / With a foul witch / And after, drained dry / To be brought / To the chamber where / Lies one long sought / With despair".

"You're basically training your body not to sleep in bed, but to lie there and not sleep," Walia says.

Admittedly, the complexity means that there are too many ifs, ands and buts to lay out all the permutations here.

But to lay the entire blame on Mr. Reid is unfair, that person added.

And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth.

It is, of course, a shame not to make the top four, but to lay any of the blame for that at Sherwood's door is unfair.

Facing a $31 million budget deficit, officials said they had little choice but to lay off the officers, bringing the force down to 696.