Example sentences of "and lay them [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 6 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 7 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 8 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 9 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 10 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 16 | ‘ You can eat these later , once we 've disarmed them , ’ he told her , wrapping them in more tissues and laying them on the back seat . |