Sentence examples for lay missing from inspiring English sources

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Nearly five years later, her parents have fulfilled Britney's wish, building a complex in the shape of a "B" that houses 33 boys and 33 girls - one of each for the exact number of days her body lay missing beneath the ruins of the hotel where she was staying.

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Last January, Ms. Caceres's brother died from a heart attack, and she traveled to the Dominican Republic to lay him to rest, missing several days of work at her job as a maintenance worker for the New York City medical examiner's office.

But in routine security screening, the panel said, they often flag innocent people as lying, while missing actual security risks.

There lies the missed opportunity.

"The difficult situation is where there is malice or indeed evil involved, where the parents can be quite adept at lying, they miss appointments... they move on to the next school," he said.

If the town has had a claim on the consciousness of 140 million Pakistanis, it lay in the missing sign, for an Islamic militant organization known in English as the Army of the Pure, in Urdu as Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose spiritual headquarters lies a mile or so off among the green rice paddies and grazing buffalo that flank the highway.

But Bournemouth were not ready to lie down, despite missing Fraser's attacking threat, as debutant Jack Collison, signed on loan from West Ham hours before, tested Paddy Kenny with a curling 25-yarder.

"I hope that my generation," Snyder told the Associated Press, "the warriors coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq who are lying in bed missing a limb or whatever and they don't know what's next, can see my story and say: 'Hey, that's for me.

Missing face of AIDS Far away from the football field, meanwhile, the real reason behind that gift – and the reason why Barça wears the UNICEF logo on their team uniforms – lies in the missing face of AIDS, a child's face.

On the other a family stood amid the devastation to lay candles for a missing loved one.

The survivors, many of them women and children, some of them missing limbs, lay in the road moaning and calling for help.

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