Sentence examples for lay on him from inspiring English sources

After a slaving expedition, Ablass finds himself on a Caribbean island where the indigenous people, their lives destroyed by the conquerors, lay on him a curse that will dog him for ever.

Reading her work was like listening to Mozart, he told her; the responsibility she wanted to lay on him had, as a result, "a certain aura of May Pole Dancing, if you know what I mean".

Possibly the provision in the second section of the act of 1850 requiring the Secretary to make out and transmit to each state accurate lists of the lands falling within the grant might be said to lay on him a duty to make selections.

When you're lying around watching TV, all you want to do is cuddle, so you lay on him and he'll put his arm around you because he loves when you're that close to him.

I'm quite surprised no-one has tried to properly lay one on him yet.

One man crouches on all fours while the other arches right back on top, lying on him back to back.

An anonymous man on Wednesday told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that he was traumatised after he woke up to find Spacey lying on him.

On Wednesday, another man came forward, saying that when he was a teenager, Mr. Spacey had lain on him while he was sleeping.

A man has said he was left traumatised after waking up to find Hollywood star Kevin Spacey lying on him when he was a teenager in the 1980s.

I noticed my father trying to wake the man in the bunk above him, but without success - a reinforcing steel beam in the ceiling had fallen down and was lying on him.

I believe the responsibility lies on him as an adult because my son was not following him.