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lie before
verb
To put oneself at the whim of, to bow down to
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But we've been told this lie before.
He saw fit to lie before the grand jury.
"Great and grandiose tasks lie before us," he said.
There are many problems in the world that lie before us caused by politicians who lie before us.
She quoted the lyrics: "My road is rough and steep but beautiful fields lie before me".
After making an interesting choice this week, all of Mr Koizumi's difficult decisions still lie before him.
We will continue to do our research and understand where market opportunities lie before we dive headlong into them.
Her ambition, she says, was "to see if I could just let the sea lie before me.
It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.
All of these innovations are designed to improve your understanding of the options and opportunities that lie before you in your first year at MIT.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself….
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