Example sentences of "had been laid out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur . |
| 2 | When Ted arrived at the box , the signalman 's corpse had been laid out on the signal frame- and was covered with a sheet , from where he was removed by ambulance to the local hospital . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) . |
| 5 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 6 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 7 | It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him . |
| 8 | A park-like path had been laid out around the sacred waters , with stepping stones . |
| 9 | There , even on this windy and showery day of late April , there was a stillness and a warmth , and in the flower-beds that had been laid out among the stretches of lush emerald turf the daffodils and narcissi were at least two weeks ahead of their fellows in the outer world . |