Elsewhere Mr Badnarik has promised, if elected, to wear his handgun during state-of-the-union addresses, blow up empty United Nations buildings and require violent criminals to lie in bed all day for the first month of their incarceration.

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You want to lie in bed and keep the lights off.

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He would lie in bed all day with the curtains closed.

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Janey even fought past her fear of needles in order to treat my dad at home because the last thing he wanted was to lie in a hospital bed during his final days.

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The day after a knee replacement, most orthopedic surgeons have their patients use a continuous passive-motion machine, which flexes and extends the knee as they lie in bed.

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Candy recalled feeling another sort of happiness, too, when she had crawled over the railing of the hospital bed in order to lie next to her mother one last time.

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This manual press on the Up helps the app to know when you first lie down in bed, so it can measure how long it takes for you to fall asleep.

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Ms Purdy wants to take the drug to treat her spasms which have got so bad she is unable to lie in bed.

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What little her mother had to say through her clamp of a mouth was to the point: Verna had made her own bed, and now she would have to lie in it.

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It's just that, you know, when, you know, after horses have gone through the surgery, you can't say to a horse, well, you know, lie in bed for six weeks and you'll be okay.

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