Sentence examples for he laid himself from inspiring English sources

That was what he was after when he laid himself down on the railroad tracks".

In choosing to write such a physically and emotionally honest account, he laid himself surprisingly bare.

"So we're on this ferry to Sausalito," Mr. Jones recalled out on the slate patio he laid himself.

If he wanted to condemn this execution, or even to seek to obstruct it, he laid himself open to an objection: you're a stranger, what do you know?

Instead, he laid himself open to ridicule by installing huge clear blocks in the foyer of the headquarters emblazoned with the words respect, integrity, service, excellence and stewardship.

The striking thing about Nixon, in fact, is the extent to which he laid himself out before the public.

When he wrote Genius, Bate's professorial chair was at Liverpool; now that he has relocated to Warwick, and forged close professional links with the nearby Stratford Shakespeare industry (not least as a governor of the RSC), he lays himself open to the charge of sharing its vested interest in opposing the north west's claim to a stake in our national poet.

As yet there are no Facebook campaigns to get the song back to the top of the charts when stunt organiser Mark Biddis's mum dies, but maybe he should consider quite what moral equivalences he's laid himself open to.

There is simply no way that Rupert Murdoch, who has escaped more snares than Houdini, can cleanly escape the trap he has laid himself.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet "If the Guardian did the work that the government failed to do, is the lesson there really that the press should have less power, and the government more?" — Amy Davidson looks at David Cameron's plan for newspaper regulation "There is simply no way that Rupert Murdoch, who has escaped more snares than Houdini, can cleanly escape the trap he has laid himself".

The issue becomes sharper because, as a consequence, he has laid himself open to questions about whether some of his recent remarks criticising the government were shaped by the hope of political preferment, or whether he was moved to accept Cameron's offer by pique at having his military advice overruled by our elected representatives.