His elderly mother lay asleep in the living room so Sulters spoke softly explaining his family's long history with the areas textile mills.

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After she left, I drank some orange juice and then lay back and tried to fall asleep.

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We offered to get a cot, but he said no thanks, folded his suit jacket inside out into a pillow, lay down on the floor and promptly fell asleep.

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In the calm of a Tuesday, the mercurial Roy lay on the couch in the living room with a baby asleep on his chest.

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