Example sentences of "lay they on the " in BNC.

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1 Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ?
2 He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He took an envelope from his breast pocket , extracted three photos , laid them on the desk .
6 Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag .
7 She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass .
8 They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave .
9 Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top .
10 George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf .
11 He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster .
12 Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk .
13 Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker .
14 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 .
15 Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ?
16 His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth .
17 ‘ You can eat these later , once we 've disarmed them , ’ he told her , wrapping them in more tissues and laying them on the back seat .
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