Example sentences of "lay [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government forces then laid seige to the building and , after a standoff of several hours , there was a four-hour gun-battle which culminated in the storming of the hotel . |
| 2 | My older brother and I immediately laid siege to our mother to let us go . |
| 3 | The press laid siege to Diana 's flat in London and followed her every move until the engagement was announced five months later . |
| 4 | In 799 the Moors retook Barcelona , and King Louis of Aquitaine laid siege to it . |
| 5 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 6 | At once , Richard set forth for Cyprus and after unsuccessful negotiations with Isaac , laid siege to Limassol . |
| 7 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 8 | Following the defeat of Napoleon in Russia the Russian Army laid siege to Danzig for over 10 months . |
| 9 | Even as the armies of Chaos laid siege to the shrine Aenarion stood before the ever-burning flame and begged Asuryan to aid his people . |
| 10 | Duke John and the Earl of Cambridge laid siege to Quimperlê , probably on 23 June , and after a heavy English assault the garrison agreed that if they were not relieved within a week they would surrender . |
| 11 | In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges ; after a few days resistance Aimar 's citadel capitulated . |
| 12 | Elsewhere in the city there were ugly incidents : NSF opponents were beaten up ; the National Peasants ' Party leader , Corneliu Coposa , had to be evacuated by armoured car after a crowd laid siege to his party 's headquarters ; and Liberal Party officials fled as their headquarters was stormed and ransacked . |
| 13 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 14 | The Chimera , in classical Greek legend , was a monster , part lion , part dragon , part goat , which laid waste to the region of Lycia . |
| 15 | The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse . |
| 16 | While the political literati lay waste to vast tracts of newsprint in their musings about the causes of Labour 's failure , and the shortcomings of the political system that compounded it , those people who constitute what ought to be the bedrock of oppositional electoral support are becoming increasingly alienated not only from the Labour Party , but from the entire political process . |
| 17 | Schlieffen planned to leave his left wing in Alsace and Lorraine lightly manned , while an immensely strong right wing was to execute a rapid enveloping movement through Flanders and Picardy — ‘ brushing the Channel with their sleeves ’ — and lay siege to Paris from the west . |
| 18 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 19 | He 'd found her , he said , and next day he 'd either lay siege to the place , or boldly batter on the door and ask for her hand in marriage — or at least her something else in something else ! |
| 20 | And they could lay waste to that hemisphere 's traffic in tropical lumber . |
| 21 | This latter idea could lay claim to a basis in ideas of collegiality — but only of a limited nature . |
| 22 | It is also the reason why he could lay claim to a rich blend of cultures , having an excellent grasp of the European legal system and Arabic poetry and customs . |
| 23 | Gedge conceded the point in a humorous letter to Dave Fielding , admitted that he could lay claim to a proportion of the royalties accrued by the song . |
| 24 | Gay Rights spokesmen would presumably lay claim to a right to enjoy a full physical relationship which is just as valid as that which is enjoyed by heterosexuals . |
| 25 | Banking can lay claim to being one of the world 's earliest multinational industries with financiers in Lombardy ( Italy ) lending money to various European royal houses in the 1300s . |
| 26 | If proof was lacking , the trust beneficiary could turn only to his rights in personam against the trustee ; nor , since there was no doctrine of tracing , could he lay claim to the property received by the trustee in place of the original trust property . |
| 27 | Do you mean that only Nobel laureates and their peers can lay claim to the hallowed occupation of research ? |
| 28 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
| 29 | So while Glasgow can lay claim to having had the earliest adult deaf organisation , Edinburgh 's Deaf Society has the longest continuous existence . |
| 30 | If any one man could lay claim to the title of ‘ Father ’ of the national British deaf movement as embodied by the British Deaf Association , it was James Paul of Kilmarnock , Scotland . |