Examples of 'had been lying' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been lying"
This phrase indicates a past action of intentionally providing false information or deceit. It suggests that someone was not telling the truth or was deliberately misleading others
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had been lying
Where his mother had been lying in wait.
Had been lying dead for several weeks.
As though she had been lying with a beast.
But there was no proof that she had been lying.
I had been lying to myself and to her.
I rediscovered passions that had been lying dormant.
We had been lying there quiet as mice.
I could not believe that he had been lying to me about it.
Tey had been lying around for a measurement.
I strongly suspected that he had been lying.
These casings had been lying around for years.
It was a great big ocean liner that had been lying sunk.
He also had been lying to his parents.
When they found he had been lying.
This man had been lying all along.
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He realized then that his mother had been lying to him.
I think he had been lying to her about it for years.
It showed that the government had been lying to the public.
He had been lying dead on his bed for six years.
He worked out that he had been lying here for a week.
I had been lying so much lately.
Viewing bodies that had been lying there for centuries.
It had been lying in the same place since the day before.
Jane just found out her fiancé had been lying to her.
Striker had been lying down.
I became pregnant by him then found out he had been lying to me.
Her body had been lying undiscovered for about a month.
But she just found out michael had been lying to her.
Sawyer had been lying about his name for years.
Investigators then understood she had been lying and decided to arrest her.
He had been lying in the snow and all just dreamed.
Then she got up slowly as though she had been lying with a beast.
The kid had been lying there crying for three days.
Answering honestly would mean acknowledging that he had been lying to himself.
But because he had been lying to her for seven years.
They had taken over a house on the road and had been lying in wait.
Donald had been lying.
It took seven men with levers to raise the stone which had been lying flat.
The kid had been lying there cying for three days.
The witness answered that the corpses had been lying around for two or three days.
And he had been lying around here for a long time.
Tom realized that Mary had been lying to him.
As though she had been lying with a beast she feared to rouse again.
I saw that all of those people I had been talking to had been lying to me.
Simon had been lying.
I got up quietly from where I had been lying down.
All of the bankers had been lying about the actual state of affairs.
She began to suspect that Mama and Papa had been lying to her.
She realized she had been lying to herself over these past months.
I did not know how long I had been lying there.
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