Example sentences of "[noun pl] have laid [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed and unarmed Iranians streamed in-along with gusts of tear gas that the US marines had laid down around the door . |
| 2 | So convinced were they of this ultimate victory , that ever since Christians have laid down their own lives on the line rather than renounce this hard-won faith . |
| 3 | ( Dixon 1984 : 38–9 ) As a consequence of this incident ( and no doubt others like it ) , the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies has laid down ethical guidelines and imposed strict conditions upon research grant applicants , including linguists . |
| 4 | He could see the food the Men had laid out in different places across the Park and he was tempted by it ; and the thought of its taste began to obsess him . |
| 5 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 6 | Mr. Beazley submitted : ( i ) the Court of Justice authorities have laid down that the wording of the Schedule is to be given an independent interpretation and is not to be construed in accordance with national law . |
| 7 | Similarly ( b ) alone may not be sufficient as the courts have laid down principles which effectively restrict the time for which any such covenant can run and also the geographical area it can cover . |
| 8 | Other market proxies have laid down rules for pricing according to marginal cost . |