Example sentences of "laid [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Track could be laid only during the brief summer months . |
| 2 | These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold . |
| 3 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 4 | Ronnie Oldroyd adjusts an extra piece of the Royal Carpet , a separate Chlidema rug that was laid directly under the two Thrones . |
| 5 | But the blame for its weakness can not be laid directly at the feet either of the takeover or of debt . |
| 6 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 7 | Emphasis has been laid before on the commercial environment in which we operate , and also of the good , practical , commonsense business efficacy that any conveyancer ought to possess before entering into private practice . |
| 8 | This was because of the the smaller number of cases reported ( 99 by June 1984 , with 5 deaths ) and the fact that blame was laid mainly at the feet of absorbency , synthetic fibres and deodorising tampons ( much more common in the States than here ) . |
| 9 | The two vessels had laid there off the Navy Yard all that morning . |
| 10 | Another idea was to adapt a gas line laid earlier to the USSR , so as to carry crude instead . |
| 11 | Since then the district rate had risen steadily ; so too had rents , responsibility for which was laid firmly at the door of landlords and hence the Alliance : –Tote Labour and keep out Alliance landlords ' , concluded E Reed after a brief analysis of increases in rents ( Election leaflet 1920 ) . |
| 12 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 13 | Clothes laid briefly against the wall became wet . |
| 14 | The eggs are laid underwater in the autumn and hatch in the spring . |
| 15 | And there , in the churchyard , next to my unknown parents , my poor sister was laid quietly in the earth , while the birds sang and the clouds danced in the sky . |
| 16 | The down-stream side is more sloping and covered with poles laid parallel to the sides of the valley , so giving the structure the strength to withstand the pressure from the water that accumulates in the lake . |
| 17 | Most flooring can be laid anywhere in the house but there are some obvious choices for certain rooms . |