Example sentences of "lay [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 2 | ‘ The SSD laid off the rower for poor performance , sold off all the paddles , cancelled all the capital investment for new equipment , halted the development of a new canoe , awarded high performance awards to the consultants and distributed the money saved to senior management . ’ |
| 3 | We lay under the trees and slept . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish you 'd lay off the make-up , though . ’ |
| 5 | We must lay off the booze even during Holy Communion . |
| 6 | He must lay off the kif . |
| 7 | Oh Charlotte 's trying to lean against him and push him out , no he 's settled for under the table now , now leave him Charlotte he can lay under the table , he 's out the way over there |
| 8 | That 's alright they 'll just lay in the top . |
| 9 | Mr Duckett says : ‘ However poor the local infrastructure , with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish , putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site . |
| 10 | Why not lay in the line of tempera , holding the brush against a straight edge , such as a ruler . |
| 11 | ‘ Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf ? ’ |
| 12 | And he laid before the tailor three things . |
| 13 | " He also laid before the Meeting an account of the expenses he had incurred in travelling & c during the progress of the building , as also his charge of Commission , together amounting to £388 13 8d of which he had received on account £100 , Whereupon the Committee were pleased to order the balance to be paid him . " |
| 14 | The importance which Ellis laid upon the drafting and promulgation of such rules is generally regarded as one of his major contributions to the civilizing of Texas prisons . |
| 15 | He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather , that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled . |
| 16 | We all found him interesting , so when we lay in the sun after lunch , the white gravel covering our backs with powdery marks , his fighting demonstrations were keenly attended . |
| 17 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 18 | Clause 1 of the 1944 Act , which details the Secretary of State 's responsibilities to supervise education , was benignly administered ( certainly until the Wilson government 's request for greater progress in the reorganization of secondary education on comprehensive lines , Circular 10/65 ) , nevertheless ( as events in the 1980s were to demonstrate ) there lay in the wording of this clause the potential for a draconian control of education . |
| 19 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 20 | The key here lay in the provision of information on the occupational hazards of asbestos to the Raybestos Manhattan workers . |
| 21 | With perfect buoyancy we lay in the current , drifting at no mean speed through the long fronds of kelp , angling our bodies to follow the curves of the bottom . |
| 22 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 23 | The roots of disillusionment — in so far as they were the fruit of twelfth-century conditions and not merely the natural response to too high or too vaguely expressed expectations — lay in the intellectuals ' belief , stated by John of Salisbury . |
| 24 | In any case nobody wanted to reverse the process ; tobacco had been a pleasant commercial curtain-raiser but by the second half of the seventeenth century people in England were convinced that the real attraction of possessions overseas lay in the sugar islands . |
| 25 | There was a great wheel driven by a leather belt and this powered the drill , and as you lay in the chair two things dominated the outlook ; the wheel whirring by your ear and Hector 's huge knee pistoning almost into your face as he pedalled furiously . |
| 26 | We lay in the spring wind |
| 27 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 28 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 29 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 30 | Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table . |