Example sentences of "lay [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 2 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 3 | Lay me alongside the French admiral ! ’ |
| 4 | They laid him on the cool grass and bathed his forehead . |
| 5 | As the paving is all made from broken paving slabs and , therefore , all the same thickness , you simply lay it on the levelled sand bed . |
| 6 | Nathan closed the folder and laid it on the starched tablecloth . |
| 7 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 8 | When he had begun to eat , I'tibar Khan entered with the box and laid it before the unhappy father , saying : ‘ King Aurangzeb , your son sends this plat to your majesty to let you see that he does not forget you . ’ |
| 9 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 10 | He dropped a long , searching kiss on her mouth , then took her shaking hand and laid it against the powerful , overpowering size of his arousal . |
| 11 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 12 | This has to be done before the end of the time allowed for laying them before the general meeting and if any of the documents is not in the English language a certified translation must be annexed . |