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• An appeal lies in this case.
• The secret (of the recipe) lies in the sauce.
• The skyscraper lies on top of solid bedrock.
• Don’t just lie there. Do something!
• The coin just lay there on the ground. So I took it.
• You’re lying! I can tell.
• Wishing this lie of life was o'er.
• I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
• Hips don't lie.
• Photos often lie.
• While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or unethical. The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to lie in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life.WP
• If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.
• When Pinocchio lies, his nose grows.
• The book lies on the table;  the snow lies on the roof;nbsp; he lies in his coffin
• The wind is loud and will not lie.
• Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.
• While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, [...] where I lay one night only.
• He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.
• Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
• The paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
• to lie waste;  to lie fallow; to lie open;  to lie hidden;  to lie grieving;  to lie under one's displeasure;  to lie at the mercy of the waves
• From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
• Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
• The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
• Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.
• The watchful traveller [...] / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.