When you think back to meeting him now, do you think.. I should have lain down on a couch and talked to Freud maybe?
Nigger should have lain in state in the rotunda of the Capitol, to be viewed by all the honourable men and women in government – if there are any.
I thought to myself, We have this villa, this grass, we should have lain down together, you in my arms,before we died.
My instinct is that the battle for best new play should have lain between James Graham's parliamentary This House and The Effect but, with signal obtuseness, the Olivier judges haven't even nominated the latter.
A 1987 review concluded that "it seems astonishing that such splendidly written and deeply moving music should have lain in obscurity all these years".
Good basketball players should have lay-ups locked down so well they'll never miss one in a game situation.
You will note that strictly – as Bob Dylan was inviting the lady in question to lie down across his big brass bed, rather than reporting that she had done so in the past – he should have sung "Lie Lady Lie" rather than "Lay Lady Lay".
The abstract liberal admiral doesn't think soldiers should have to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens".John McCain's response to Obama's statement was that of a grown-up: "This successful policy has been in effect for over 15 years, and it is well understood and predominantly supported by our military at all levels.
While we can all agree that Lance would have been better-off not cheating at all (or at least confessing sooner), it's fairly clear that once he cheated and lied, he probably should have kept lying if he wanted to maintain his public standing.
Your track coach should have these lying around.
The personification is less intrusive as the novel gathers steam, but near the end the author declares that "with a little common sense, the matter could have ended there," and traces human problems to a verbal error: The proof that the universe was not as well-thought-out as it should have been lies in the fact that the Creator ordered the star that illumines us to be called the sun.
