Sentence examples for lay down as from inspiring English sources

32 It was, however, possible for a cemetery authority to lay down, as one of the conditions governing burials in their cemetery, that the body of a stillborn child would not be buried there unless a certificate by a doctor or certified midwife was furnished to the cemetery superintendent, and practice seems to have varied widely on this matter.

He lay down as ordered by the soldiers, but bolted at the first opportunity.

She lay down as if she were in a hammock and stared at the ceiling: "This is the best part".

DAVID EAGLEMAN: I think this is closely related to (or at least difficult to separate from ) the issue of how many novel memories we lay down as life settles into the daily grind.

Whatever one thinks about the wording of the first three articles, it is hard to gainsay what they aspire to lay down as minimum conditions for a human life worth the name.

The queen, soldiers, grooms, musicians and ladies in waiting -- as many as 62 in one case -- apparently walked alive into the "death pit," where they took poison or a drug and then lay down as earth was shoveled over them.

The cows lie down as if it is night.

The plants were all lying down, as if someone had beaten them and they had no strength to get up.

The best way to experience "Skymap" is not to stand or to sit, but to lie down, as many in the audience did.

At the end of the second movement, accompanied by a solo piccolo, Ms. Semionova and Mr. Gomes lie down, as if to sleep, and yet the timing is amusing.

In an immaculate black suit and white shirt, with his food momentarily abandoned on the table, he looks a bit odd as he almost lies down; as though making himself semi-invisible will make the questions go away.