Example sentences of "lie down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was still shivering and her head felt muzzy , but now she was lying down the boat did n't seem to be doing quite so much heaving and rolling .
2 They had granted her permission to move tents once she 'd heard that an unconscious soldier named Trumper was lying down the line .
3 Cowell and Crothers ( 1970 ) and Crothers ( 1971 ) accepted the basic observation- namely that dog-whelks cease growth at maturity and ( usually ) lay down a row of " teeth " .
4 He found all second winter whelks to cease feeding on the Yorkshire coast and lay down a row of " teeth " within their shell .
5 Except in thin-shelled populations , adults usually lay down a row of teeth along the lip of the aperture .
6 The sages who lay down the law in this party have always said that if Ms Aloni left education , where she was ‘ poisoning the innocent souls of Israel 's children ’ , they could contemplate joining Mr Rabin .
7 But nobody ever came into the woods to shake their finger in my face and lay down the law , the way they did with Gittel in the dorf .
8 Bet you fucking lay down the law alright .
9 They lay down the procedure by which delivery is to be made .
10 an enormous building , very dimly lit , with pillars of wood on either side ; the floor was strewn with green rushes and a long carpet lay down the centre .
11 Some briefings even lay down the report structure and main topics to be covered .
12 DoE and the Department of Trade and Industry have asked the British Standards Institution to revise any analytical standards that lay down the use of either of these compounds .
13 Although the cases lay down the rule that a distinction between general skill and knowledge and business secrets must be maintained , it is impossible to formulate any general test .
14 The empowering provisions in the founding treaties generally lay down the method of adoption of the measures which they authorize , specifying in particular the institution which may propose the measure , the institution which may adopt it , the institutions which must be consulted and whether the voting shall be unanimous or by majority .
15 Why do n't you lie down a bit ?
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