Sentence examples for lying themselves from inspiring English sources

While we'd all like to pretend that our first true taste of nightlife's transcendental powers were provided by Harvey at Moist or Danny Rampling at Shoom or Erol Alkan at Trash, only a select few can make those claims without lying themselves into an early grave.

They lay themselves open to accusations of illegal conversion.

Like all fat people, they lay themselves open to ridicule by the shallow, unhappy and mean.

The candidates therefore compete for money, often from suspect sources, and thus lay themselves open to ever more eye-popping charges of corruption.

He began to feel an odd sympathy for the exhausted men slogging through the sand, envied them as they lay themselves down before his fire".

Pathos is alive and well; there has never been a better time for British comics to lay themselves bare and talk to their audiences honestly about their experiences.

Were they more at leisure, perhaps, to let the past wash over the present — to lay themselves at the mercy of regret?

RoH also lay themselves open to misinterpretation with the cover photographs on their current brochures: pictures of young toffs in evening dress.

HMRC will continue to challenge in the courts and anyone who engages in tax avoidance schemes risk not only the high cost of these schemes but also lay themselves open to penalties and, potentially, prosecution".

(In "Mein Kampf," Hitler had written that most people "are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones").

But one sure way for them to lay themselves open to criticism is to do what they're doing now — tinkering with wartime policy out of public view, vote-swapping and cutting deals to accommodate competing party interests.