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Example sentences for "lies down"

  • In following a wounded buck the main point is just to keep it in sight without pressing it until it lies down, when it should be left for about half an hour before being restalked.

  • The calf is stiff and lame, lies down constantly, and does not care to suck.

  • This evening, exhausted with fatigue, he lies down in a grotto at the foot of the mountain, where he passes a night full of agitation and anxiety.

  • After fruitless struggles it surrenders in despair, lies down, closes its eyes, and the next instant once more begins the hopeless fight for liberty.

  • When he perceives that his comrade does not move, he slowly pushes the coverlet from off him and creeps on all fours into the inner room; there he lies down flat on his stomach and peeps through a crevice in the rafters.

  • You must not listen to such nonsense, child; but go and tell your father that there is a gentleman here from Poland who wants to speak to him immediately before he lies down.

  • It is his habit every night, before he lies down, to fire off his gun, then I will approach him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being known; black head; can make; caused the; common law; conjugal rights; est pas; fixed time; gentleman named; glanced about; justly regarded; lies between; lies buried; lies down; like scales; paternal government; said here; small stones; spoken unto; study the; thou false; usually applied; whom the; wireless telegraph