Sentence examples for should be lying from inspiring English sources

Ray thinks by rights she's the one who should be lying on the floor.

After a few hours we agreed that she should be lying on the lion, wearing a sleeveless onesie.

First of all, when the robot is turned on, it should be lying on its side on a stable surface to allow it to calibrate its gyroscope.

It is sad, she said, that the donated facilities should be lying idle at Amorikot, while other schools would put them to better use.

With that I remarked, only half-jokingly, "Maybe you should be lying here and I should be standing where you are.

Dan Senor, a Republican foreign policy adviser who was the Bush administrations' chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, said: "There are a lot of quote-unquote Republican strategists who think Dick Cheney should be lying low.

The construction is inverted, but the subject is the plural "charms," so the verb should be "lie".

The dumbbells should be lie along your body at chest level.

For example: "I want to lay in bed with you and mommy, who you call Stevie-pie, but I peed in my pull up and need a new butt; can you change it?" Yes, it should be lie and not lay, but cut her some slack.

Me You see… Actually, should I be lying down for this?

I shouldn't be lying in bed, I'm not that ill; I'll dose myself up and be fine.