Sentence examples for having a lie from inspiring English sources

THOMAS Mister Carson won't be too happy about having a lie down now, Daisy.

Apparently, he's having a lie down for a couple of weeks to recover from Anna Kournikova's cutaway blouse.

19 min: The free-kick is shoddy in the extreme - it dribbles into the wall, where it hits Tim Cahill who is having a lie down.

The rest of that time, he's drinking at the bar, feeding coins into the poker machine, maybe even having a lie down in one of the rooms on his own.

When almost everyone else in Europe is having a lie in, or has time to – well, to be honest, I have no idea what people do with week day free time, because I barely have time to do the washing up, but whatever it is people do – whilst they are doing that, we're wilting in screenglare.

But Jonathan wasn't having a lie-in.

He might have been having a lie-in or going through the final preparations with the coaching staff.

That morning she woke late and went downstairs to make the tea, glad that the baby was having a lie-in.

The BBC reports that Clegg is having a lie-in and a country walk to prepare, which sounds very sensible to me.

While you're reading this, I'll either be having a lie-in, a bit of a bike ride or a massage.

I met Mark a hundred years ago when my friend Nadia and I were snotty little club kids who used to talk shit on Livejournal about the ageing relics we'd seen at Nag Nag Nag, and how people like Mark Moore – who was the man behind S-Express – and Boy George and some dude from Frankie Goes to Hollywood should all be at home having a lie-down and letting us lot get on with it.