Example sentences of "and laid them [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him .
2 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
3 She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair .
4 So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely .
5 A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries .
6 Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag .
7 She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass .
8 George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf .
9 He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster .
10 Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk .
11 Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker .
12 Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil .
13 As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks .
14 Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest .
15 Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave .
16 Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table .
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