Sentence examples for great lay from inspiring English sources

By the time I was 17, I'd decided I wanted to be a great lay.

At the same time, there was an increasing, sometimes obsessive interest in sex, though he was usually funny about it: in "Madder Music," after many episodes of athletic adultery, his unfaithful narrator confesses, "She's a great lay, but she needs an editor".

When the Feast of Corpus Christi was instituted in 1246, the great lay cycles of biblical plays (the mystery plays and miracle cycles) developed rapidly, eventually treating the whole story of humankind from the Creation to the Last Judgment, with the Crucifixion still the climax of the experience.

Those included the lands controlled by the Piast princes, their rivals the great lay land owners and church entities, all the way down to the knightly class; the work force ranged from hired "free" people, through serfs attached to the land, to slaves (purchased or war and other prisoners).

All the greats lay before me.

Other pastors, used to almost complete control, view greater lay involvement as bureaucratic interference, church officials say.

In experiment I cows in the strawyard system had a significantly greater lying time, ruminating time and synchronisation of lying behaviour than the cubicle system.

This was a great lie, of course.

P41 The great lie of online advertising.

I think that's a great lie, a horrible lie.

(This is the great lie of the "staycation".