Example sentences of "and lay [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 2 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 3 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 4 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 5 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 6 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 7 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 8 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 9 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 10 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 11 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 12 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 13 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 14 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 15 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 16 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 17 | In some minutes the short hairs on the disc of the leaf began to bend , then the long hairs , and laid themselves on the insect . |
| 18 | She walked across to the dresser flattened the cheque out and laid it beside the bucket . |
| 19 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 20 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 21 | She made an offering of flowers and fruits , spurred pennants of scarlet heliconia from the rainforest , blue-blushed rue and sorrel vines with tendrils trailing , and laid it on the pit . |
| 22 | He and Broughton carried the dead body of Hilary Frome from its resting place at the top of the stairs , and laid it on the bed in the sick bay . |
| 23 | She took the dress and laid it on the bed again . |
| 24 | Wycliffe took her letter to Riddle from his pocket and laid it on the desk in front of her . |
| 25 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 26 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 27 | He took a 78 from the shelf in the cabinet , wiped it with a fat hand , and laid it on the turntable . |
| 28 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got your tissue-typing result , Juliet , ’ said David , and laid it on the bed-table . |
| 30 | Cranston took out his dagger and laid it on the floor beside him . |