Example sentences of "[been] laid out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 2 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 3 | I landed in a heap of cardboard boxes , shredded paper and polystyrene which had evidently been laid out for the purpose and prepared to come up fighting . |
| 4 | She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish . |
| 5 | In one of the accompanying photographs it will be noticed that the swingle trees have been laid out on the chassis in front of the boot containing the collapsible bed . |
| 6 | When Ted arrived at the box , the signalman 's corpse had been laid out on the signal frame- and was covered with a sheet , from where he was removed by ambulance to the local hospital . |
| 7 | The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur . |
| 8 | There , even on this windy and showery day of late April , there was a stillness and a warmth , and in the flower-beds that had been laid out among the stretches of lush emerald turf the daffodils and narcissi were at least two weeks ahead of their fellows in the outer world . |
| 9 | It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him . |
| 10 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 11 | ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) . |
| 12 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |