Sentence examples for past lay from inspiring English sources
Until recently its past lay steeped in obscurity.
Not until the end of May 2004 did he realize that a question arising from the past lay heavily on the present: why had the paper failed to revisit its coverage?
Fortunately for the party, the reunification of worlds has opened the pathways to ancient sites where weapons and powers used to quell Enuo's rise a thousand years past lay in wait.
In the past lies the future.
Even as he admits past lies to Mr Gibney, he insists that he conquered Mont Ventoux in 2009 without doping.
In "Low Winter Sun," at 10 15, the Detroit Police Department catches a break on the McCann case, and past lies push Geddes (Lennie James and Frank Mark Strongng) toward a confrontation.
It is true that one of the pleasures of contemporary imitations of the past lies in the language, in both description and dialogue.
All of which begs a big question: Why can't these countries just let the past lie, especially when doing so would be so clearly in their interests?
Because of its record of past lying about its covert-action programs (and other matters), the Pakistani military does not engender much trust.
The peoples of the Balkans, Winston Churchill once observed, "produce more history than they can consume," and the weight of their past lies oppressively on their present.
