Example sentences of "we lay [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We laid up Valiant in the Hamble river in November . |
| 2 | For almost every railway line built by the different railway companies — permission for which was passed by the House in different eras — we laid down different procedures . |
| 3 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 4 | Having decided not to use herbicides on a weedy patch , we laid out black plastic to smother the weeds when they grew . |
| 5 | In chapters 1 and 2 , we laid out some of the broad lines of argument about how national choices are conditioned by the international political economy . |