Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] lies " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Stephen ever discover that Timothy Gedge had not entirely told lies ? |
| 2 | Despite its " long-standing friendly relations " with Iraq , the Soviet Union " can not keep silent , still less tell lies " . |
| 3 | Well they just tell lies Sheila that 's all |
| 4 | Stop fucking telling lies ! |
| 5 | Little Billy always told lies to his mother , but they were never convincing . |
| 6 | Why do people always tell lies . ’ |
| 7 | My mum kept telling me she thought I was spending too much , but I 'd always tell lies about the price of things . |
| 8 | Little Billy always tells lies to his mother , but they are never convincing . |
| 9 | He was always telling lies . ’ |
| 10 | The largest so far identified lies west of Ryknild Street , emphasizing the fact that the road may once have acted as a settlement boundary . |
| 11 | I shall show why I do not think — it is not what my officials think , but what I think — that I would be right to use the discretion which he correctly said lies with me . |
| 12 | I will suggest in this section of the essay that the reason why the antithesis between liberal principles and contract theory is so frequently overlooked lies in a second level of debate which the discussion of liberalism masks . |
| 13 | He 's admitted twice telling lies to the police , but says his wife was trying to set him up and he did n't want detectives to believe her story . |
| 14 | She was polite , she was tidy , and she never , never told lies . ’ |
| 15 | I never tell lies . |
| 16 | I 'll never tell the truth , if you 'll never tell lies . ’ |
| 17 | When we investigate experimentally the " stuff of the world it never tells lies , it never changes the rules in the course of play . |