Example sentences of "be lay [adv] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 2 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 4 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 5 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 6 | I landed in a heap of cardboard boxes , shredded paper and polystyrene which had evidently been laid out for the purpose and prepared to come up fighting . |
| 7 | She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish . |
| 8 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 9 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 10 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |