Example sentences of "[adv] lay " in BNC.

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1 The lesson was not wasted on Renaissance princes , who adopted individual portraiture on their own coins , in the hope that these would survive as lasting memorials to their achievements in the same way as Roman coins had ; this adoption of portraiture thereby laid one of the foundations of modern coin design .
2 Elsewhere , the major infiltration seems to have occurred in the course of the fifteenth century : the Signet Office had a predominantly lay staff from 1437 , the Exchequer from 1500 , if not before . ’
3 Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist .
4 A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday .
5 Lay down lay down .
6 Inside lay a green woollen balaclava , a green sleeveless pullover and a pair of navy blue corduroy shorts .
7 The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave .
8 Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor .
9 There they gently laid it down on top of the so-centimetre mark at the middle of the tape measure .
10 However , an international conference on school transport in Strasbourg decided that , despite the good safety record of buses and coaches , supervision was a particular problem because it was generally left to the driver , whose priorities obviously lay elsewhere .
11 It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’
12 You need to re member that you can be very technical when talking to experts but that the same illuminating technicalities will bewilder an audience comprising only lay people .
13 Use boards to work from to avoid disturbing newly laid blocks and only lay sufficient sand to deal with a comfortable number of blocks at any one time .
14 Now he merely lay and moaned , but at least he was no longer screaming .
15 As you gently lay them in .
16 Below lay a yard , which was sometimes full of empty liquor casings , picked up by the suppliers whenever there was a new delivery .
17 Below lay the infant Nfis .
18 Far below lay the fields green with wheat , the flat pastures grazed by horses , the darker greens of the woods .
19 Below lay the reservoir , offset by the panorama of mountains .
20 A dizzyingly long way below lay a long , deep arc of white-powder sand .
21 But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate .
22 ‘ But since we 're both going to have to stay under this roof for a couple of days , perhaps even longer , maybe we 'd better lay down some ground rules so that we can at least avoid open warfare . ’
23 You 'd better lay it sensibly now .
24 An article on the Caledonian Press , in the magazine it later published , attributed the initiative of the whole enterprise to her : " To whatever credit this may entitle her , Miss Mary Anne Thomson may justly lay claim . "
25 The drama school training will only lay the foundations and prepare you for the profession you are joining .
26 This , in turn , means that the female can only lay a relatively small number of eggs in a clutch .
27 If times are hard then she may only lay once a fortnight .
28 ‘ He is so laid back about it all .
29 The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ .
30 The interviewer will expect you to be slightly nervous , indeed may be rather alienated if you are so laid back that you appear almost indifferent .
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