He would stand on tiptoe, bend double, lie on the ground, on his back or his stomach, take pan shots, medium shots, closeups, tracking shots, and panoramic shots, from above and from below, full face, from the side, from behind.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

They would make him lie on his back looking up at the racing clouds while they tortured him in ways he could actually take.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

In Prague, my friend showed me something I will not forget: he got me to lie on my back and peer at the underside of some piece of ambassadorial furniture.

NEWYORKER: Broken Record

Australia refused to lie down and after Adam Ashley-Cooper got the Wallabies back on the scoreboard, only for Rokocoko to reach for the line at the other end.

BBC: Australia 28-49 New Zealand

Then I lie back with my head on a smooth boulder, gaze dreamily around at the lumpy brown hillsides and let the sulphurous warmth embalm me, a benevolent gesture from the volcanic gods before they blow us all to kingdom come.

BBC: The king of US national parks

Unlike the US, which has a public commitment to keeping Israel more militarily powerful than any other country in the region and which has expended endless diplomatic resources to defend its conduct, Russia will back either the Israelis or the Arabs depending on where its interests lie on a particular issue.

FORBES: Two Recent Examples of Russia as a Non-ideological Power

Everyone at the plant is now back on full wages, although they realise difficult times could still lie ahead.

BBC: Lunch Lesson 16 - Good times, bad times