Sentence examples for having a lie-down from inspiring English sources

In the lee of the building he was having a lie-down with his boots off.

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.

I need to have a lie-down for a week.

"I need to have a lie-down for a couple of years," he said.

I had to have a lie-down on the floor for a bit.

("I need to have a lie-down," Mr. Day-Lewis said in the press room after the ceremony).

As a child, the most French knew of this was that her father occasionally suffered from headaches and had to have a lie-down.

Cubs tumble around like Andrex puppies and bloated females finish off a wildebeest as the lone male has a lie-down.

Here Ms. Jacoby endures faintly molesting attention from Mr. Hallberg, as does Mr. Pronk from Mr. Mujic, before Mr. Hallberg has a lie-down while Mr. Pronk and Mr. Mujic competitively pursue Ms. Jacoby.

Drogba, the hero of the Barcelona game Wednesday — except when he took every opportunity to disrupt the flow of the game by feigning injury — can legitimately have a lie-down if Chelsea decides to opt for Fernando Torres in attack.

Colleen's incomprehension of the changing world — not to mention of the edicts of Catholicism, in which she grew up believing — makes her so bewildered and tenderhearted that you just want to cuddle her, to provide a safe place for her to have a lie-down as the world turns outside her darkened window, sad and unknowable.