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A young boy lies in a hospital...
They were lining up to join Iraq's police - but in the queue was a suicide bomber Scores killed and injured as insurgents hit Kurdish capital The Guardian p. 3 5 May 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/05/
With his mother watching, a boy cried Saturday while his grandmother lay in a hospital in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, after a bomb attack. Hadi Mizban/Associated Press May 28, 2006
Iran and Iraq to Join to Seal Border Against Insurgents
By JOHN F. BURNS NYT
May 28, 2006
— Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki of Iran,
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/
lay laid laid avec / sans particule
Photographie numérique prise par les Anglonautes, samedi 26 août 2006, après-midi, Battersea Park, London. Copyright Anglonautes
lay : poser, déposer
A message among the flowers laid [ verbe lay au participe passé ] outside St Andrew’s church in Soham yesterday.
Right, mourners lay flowers [ verbe lay au présent ] outside St Andrew’s church yesterday, where 500 people gathered for a special communion service. GE, photo caption, p. 3, 19.8.2002.
lay bare : mettre à nu / exposer à tous les regards
Outside court Naomi Campbell shuns the limelight. Inside, her life is laid bare. GE, headline, p. 1, 12.2.2002.
lay off : licencier
The Guardian p. 15 20.2.2007
lay into (verbe à préposition) + N : critiquer, « rentrer dedans », prendre à parti + N
He said executives such as ITV’s David Liddiment, who laid into the BBC director general Greg Dyke this week, should not try to blame others for their own problems.
Channel
4 chief calls for shakeup, GE, 24.08.02, p. 1.
lay out : exposer, exhiber, présenter
Ariel Sharon has laid out his terms for Palestinian independence with a vision of an emasculated and demilitarised state built on less than half the land of the occupied territories, and without Yasser Arafat as its leader. Sharon's deal for Palestine: no extra
land, no army, no Arafat,
In an agricultural town an hour's drive past the swamps and ruddy-soiled fields west of Delhi, a corpse has been laid out with care and reverence. It is being examined, to find out how and - crucially - when it died. Five men were beaten to death on Tuesday because of this body. It is a cow.
Five men found clubbed to death for skinning a cow,
lay siege : assiéger, faire le siège de
Troops lay siege to Basra Headline, GE, p. 1, 26.3.2003.
lie lay lain avec ou sans particule
A man lay in the street at 37th Street and Eighth Avenue after being shot by the police Wednesday.
Photograph: Rich Docherty
Officer Shoots Hammer-Wielding Man in Midtown Manhattan By J. DAVID GOODMAN NYT MAY 13, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/
Verbe de localisation (physique / intellectuelle) :
se trouver, résider, être, être étendu, être réduit en, s’étendre, s'allonger, gésir, reposer, se tapir.
Avec des composés (dead, dying, in ashes) : agoniser, gésir, être réduit en cendres...
A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors
After six days of intense combat against the Fallujah insurgents, US warplanes, tanks and mortars have left a shattered landscape of gutted buildings, crushed cars and charred bodies.
Headline and sub, G,
15.11.2004,
50 years of British art lies in ashes
Heron, Caulfield, Emin, Hirst - 50 years of British art lies in ashes
Headline and sub,
G, 27.5.2004,
America began saying a long farewell to Ronald Reagan yesterday at the start of a week of commemoration that will culminate in a state funeral the like of which has not been seen in Washington since the death of Lyndon Johnson in 1973. After lying in state at his presidential library in Simi Valley, California, Mr Reagan's body will be flown across the country on Wednesday to Washington, where it will lie in state at the US Capitol. US prepares long farewell for Reagan, G, 7.6.2004,https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/may/27/ thebritartfire.arts1
Doctor sued for exploiting ex-Beatle as he lay dying
Headline, G,
8.1.2004,
MY LAI, Vietnam - Just before dawn, the ritual begins.
some whispering prayers, others crying. that marks the day the soldiers swept into the tiny village before sunrise expecting to meet enemy soldiers. Instead, the soldiers found a thriving hamlet. In just 41/2 hours, the U.S. Army's 11th Brigade went on a rampage that shook the American military to its core. When it was over, about 500 people lay dead - unarmed men, women, and children - some herded into a ditch and sprayed with bullets, their bloodied bodies stacked on top of one another. The jury in the Soham murder trial is expected to be sent out today to consider its verdicts, after the judge warned them not to let emotion influence them in this "tragic case". Mr Justice Moses said it was "idle to pretend" that the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman did not provoke a strong response but that their judgement must be made on the evidence alone. Experts:
Earlier Tiger Force probe could have averted My Lai carnage,
He added: "You decide where the truth lies. No more and no less is required of you. Do not be overawed by the gravity of the allegation."
Soham jury to retire after judge
says: 'Don't be overawed', I, 12.12.2003,
Beneath the enduring hostility to Gypsies lies an ancient envy of the nomadic life
Acceptable hatred,
G, 4.11.2003,
Andrews, population close to 10,000, lies 42 miles from Midland, President Bush's hometown. In Bush country,
Mixed Feelings About War,
Benches in Jackson Square, often used as daybeds by the homeless, have been removed and will be re-installed with built-in dividers to prevent people from lying down. Singing the Blues as Quarter Cracks
Down,
It was a day of celebration - the first ever journey by train. But 60 minutes later, MP William Huskisson lay dying on the tracks, the inaugural victim of Britain's brave new world of railways. Headline, O, Review pullout, 13.10.2002,
Iraq isn’t the real enemy. The danger lies in the spread of nuclear weapons across the region. Headline, GE, p. 11, 9.9.2002.
A finance company this week predicted a social crisis because of rising house prices, but the real source of the housing problem lies elsewhere. Home truths, GE, p. 7, 23-8-2002.
Lurking danger: An unexploded bomb lies in an orchard near Kandahar. My village lies in the foothills of the Himalayas. GW, p. 3, Death is a daily reality in the battlefield of Kashmir.
Arab economies lie at the root of unrest : The young and educated are deeply frustrated by the lack of opportunities.
But a survivor of the raid told the Los Angeles Times that he had seen his cousin lying face down in the dirt being handcuffed by American soldiers. Anglonautes' note: find source.
lie lied lied (mentir)
So El Condor lied when he vowed to spare my life if I returned.
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/spidermn/about.htm
America's perfect woman lied over profiting from shares tip-off
Headline, G, 6.3.2004,
'The brain can't lie'
Brain scans can reveal how you think and feel, and even how you might behave. No wonder the CIA and big business are interested.
Headline and sub, G,
20.11.2003,
"It's a lot better to fool them in than to fight them," he says. "Make the initial phone call, tell them a lie. That's what I tell my people: lie, lie, lie. Bribe, bribe, bribe. Do not pull a gun. Do not fight. Lie."
Hunters and the hunted
Campbell claims BBC lied over Iraq 'dodgy dossier' Headline, GI, p. 1, 26.6.2003.
War closer as US and Britain say Iraq is lying Headline, GE, p. 2, 19.12.2002.
(…) she had lied in a spate of interviews in which she said she had never taken drugs.
Outside court Naomi Campbell
shuns the limelight.
3 November 2004 http://www.thesun.co.uk/section/0,,1,00.html
Le Sun a été réprimandé par la PCC pour cette Une mensongère :
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/dec/24/
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