Sentence examples for he lay only from inspiring English sources

He lay only second to Martin at the first checkpoint but pulled ahead by the second, 18.4km into the race.

Her lies have no hidden purpose, she told me; she lies only for the sake of lying.

He said the fault lay "only and squarely within the Department for Transport".

He said he was lying only so that his family wouldn't find out about the affair.

But he erred in thinking that the wealth of nations lay only in agriculture.

But in that direction lay only sorrow.

Their value lay only in their presidential provenance.

Yet the fault lay only partly with the intelligence services.

Behind it lay only muscle, moving without effort.

Most species lay two or three eggs, although a few species lay only one egg.

The largest species lay only a single egg that may take nearly two months to hatch.