Sentence examples for that once lay from inspiring English sources

They include a study of corsets, the sensual objects that once lay hidden beneath a sober surface.

Fossil-laden cliffs on the northern shore of Tasmania and on Maria Island off the eastern coast indicate areas that once lay beneath the sea.

Diamonds that once lay more than 435 miles beneath the earth's surface have provided researchers with an unexpected window into the planet's history.

Just below the tarmac, Parker Pearson has found naturally occurring fissures that once lay between ridges against which prehistoric builders dug ditches to create the Avenue.

Overfishing is feared to have carved out far more ecological space for jellyfish, and some have linked climate change and warming oceans to sudden explosions or blooms of jellyfish populations that once lay dormant.

In Kansas City, I recently used the "Little Black Book" to tour the forgotten red-light district that once lay by the Missouri River, now overshadowed by an Interstate highway.

This sparked a string of scandals and led to a series of reports into what went wrong at a business that could once lay claim to a presence in every UK postcode.

August Strindberg was so skeptical of received dogma that he once lay down in a Berlin street with an upright broom as a sundial to satisfy himself that the world was round.

Farc members have a justified fear that once they lay down their arms and enter civilian life they could also be targeted; looming over the process is the fate of the Patriotic Union party, a political party set up by the Farc during a previous attempt to make peace in 1984.

The rover Opportunity took its first roll on Martian soil early on Saturday morning, and scientists offered the most tantalizing evidence so far that the landing site once lay in liquid water.

Because he needs it to be that bed where she once lay with him more than he needs to know the truth.