Sentence examples for had been lying for from inspiring English sources
Three years later, though, I discovered the poet had been lying for months to conceal a dire financial circumstance.
H. E. Byng, an Englishman, took the ship over three months ago at Beirut, where she had been lying for six months with a skeleton crew.
He rushed across the road to discover David prostrate on the kitchen floor, where he had been lying for six hours, waiting for a decent time to call.
H.E. Byng, an Englishman, took the ship over three months ago at Beirut, where she had been lying for six months with a skeleton crew.
(That's why it was so terrifying to learn, last month, that vials full of smallpox, alive and forgotten, had been lying for decades in the refrigerators of a former N.I.H. laboratory).
William T. Whitely, a University of Oklahoma professor who founded an organization to prepare students for Navy Seal training, admitted in March that he had been lying for a decade by claiming he had been a Seal member and the recipient of Silver and Bronze Stars.
Worse yet, the thought that any part of him has been lying for years at a garbage dump is utterly ghoulish.
Much of the Brazilian coverage of the Jersey case has focussed on the defeats for Maluf's expensive Swiss legal team and evidence that shows the politician has been lying for years.
We've been lying for so long, who would know?" Every ten years since then, that face, with its iconic curtain of long, straight hair falling from a center part, begins to appear on magazine covers, television screens, dorm posters, and even T-shirts: this is what fifty looks like, what sixty looks like, this is seventy.
The wreckage of a German World War One U-boat remains marooned in a remote area of mudflats off the Kent coast where it has been lying for nearly 100 years.
"The platform has been lying for five years on the ocean floor at depth of 450 feet, and Diamond Offshore was hired to place a cement plug in the wells prior to removal of the platform", Shoemaker says, adding that several platforms toppled by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have leaked oil in small quantities for years.
