Sentence examples for ordered to lay from inspiring English sources

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"The Yazidi men were ordered to lay down facing the ground; they were filmed by ISIL fighters before being shot several times".

Bugler Hawthorne accompanied a party of engineers, led by Lieutenants Home and Salkeld of the Bengal Engineers, who had been ordered to lay a charge and blow the Kashmir Gate, so that entry to the city might be obtained.

She was ordered to lay a defensive minefield there on 4 September, but this order was rescinded the next day, after the mines had already been fuzed, and the ship was ordered to disembark the mines.

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All were led into a back garden, ordered to lie face down and executed.

Those who could not recite the creed were ordered to lie down.

"They may be ordered to lie down on the ground," it said.

He was then ordered to lie face-down in the back of the S.U.V.

The couple, Rabia Mohammed, 23, and her husband, Shazam Khan, 29, were ordered to lie on the ground, the police said.

Mr Hamilton, who was eventually disqualified, was allegedly ordered to lie to race officials about an overtaking manoeuvre by another driver.

The men were ordered to lie down until the enemy came nearer; almost all the officers kept on their feet, though".

The lion was ordered to lie down with its tail extended through the bars, a position needed to draw blood from the tail, Mr. Young said.

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