Example sentences of "lay they [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 2 | Very slowly she took the headphones off and laid them carefully on the table , her eyes never leaving Luke 's for a moment . |
| 3 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 4 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 5 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 6 | Her cousin shook out a towel and tied it deftly round Ruth 's shoulders , then unpacked her combs , brushes and scissors , laying them out on the dressing-table along with the setting lotion and the curling-tongs . |