Sentence examples for they lay for from inspiring English sources
He said the bodies had been left where they lay for forensic experts to examine on Sunday.
There they lay for some 50 years until they were examined by a team led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen.
Ptolemy III offered to rebuild it, but the oracle of Delphi said the people had offended Helios, and the bronze fragments remained where they lay for 800 years before they were hauled away.
You have two or three chickens, and they lay for two or three years and then you think, should I get more?" Julia Hollander, another author who keeps hens in her Oxford garden and allotment, says: "To me, they make a home.
Men overworked to the breaking point and women unnerved by hysteria dropped down on the cooling ashes and slept where they lay, for had they not seen the tall steel skyscrapers burn like a torch?
After the remains were exhumed in New Orleans, they lay for a day at Memorial Hall of the newly organized Louisiana Historical Association, with many mourners passing by the casket, including Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr.
Didn't they lie for years about tobacco's dangers?
They lie for various reasons.
And there they lie for 53 minutes more until they fall asleep.
They have claimed that unveiling is a breach of modesty; they lie, for unveiling is perfect purity".
