Example sentences of "lay out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Cozzi defines a planetary grid system as ‘ any series of lines laid out across the surface of the Earth in an attempt to measure some particular pre-designated system of ideas , correlations or theories ’ . |
| 2 | I thumbed through the book and was confronted on page 157 by a photograph of a wrought iron replica of the diagram laid out across the Wiltshire Downs . |
| 3 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 4 | The dressmaker called , and the merciless corsetière , and two obsequious men from Bodmin with bolts of wools and flannels and silks which they laid out across the drawing-room sofa for Aunt Emily to see . |
| 5 | I 've talked during my presentation about each of the paradoxes which we laid out at the beginning of the morning which talked about the diverse needs of different parts of an enterprise from their information systems if we are to deliver the adv er the advantages of enterprise-wide client server . |
| 6 | The broad rectangular market place , laid out at the gates of the former castle there , still exists as it was originally planned . |
| 7 | This brings us to the third , and for our purposes the most significant , of the problems laid out at the start of this section . |
| 8 | Seeing Saad laid out on the floor , dumb and silent . |
| 9 | I no longer had to push away the picture of Saad laid out on the floor , or banish from my imagination the sound of his huge voice , louder than the roaring of the wind , dumb for ever . |
| 10 | Next door Boy saw , laid out on the floor of a darkened and otherwise empty shop , a selection of flowers for graves . |
| 11 | The transit baggage had not been loaded and customs officials and police were insisting on all cases being opened and everything laid out on the floor . |
| 12 | The children also collected small change from their piggy banks which they laid out on the school hall floor . |
| 13 | I photographed her , the rug , the interior of the garage , the woodworking equipment and electric saws laid out on the workbench beside the handbag and folded blue jacket . |
| 14 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 15 | Pollock puts on his paint-spattered boots — that appear as a kind of homage to Van Gogh — and then he starts to walk around the umprimed canvas laid out on the earth . |
| 16 | There were other diners at other tables , but he was alone , using his lunch break to fill in papers laid out on the cloth . |
| 17 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 18 | She 'd have things in trays on their table — cakes and bread and ginger biscuits and cough candy — but it was really queer because when you went in you could n't smell any of the lovely things laid out on the table . |
| 19 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 20 | Juliette lowered the iron on to a pair of trousers laid out on the ironing-board , producing a hissing cloud of steam through which she stared solemnly at Melissa . |
| 21 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | This is a very special but long-abandoned eighteenth-century garden , laid out on the remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle . |
| 23 | This time she saw pebbles laid out over the whole of the surface , more or less evenly spaced . |
| 24 | Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life . |
| 25 | Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life . |
| 26 | The first exhibit in her case was a painful quarrel , laid out before the court in its naked entirety . |
| 27 | We three males looked at each other , then meekly trooped to the circular dining table laid out near the window . |
| 28 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 29 | Good starting points are the many waymarked trails laid out by the Forestry Commission . |
| 30 | We were not starved of new westerns in that era when great old stars were playing aged gunfighters and movie squabbled with movie on the ideological terrain laid out by the war in Vietnam . |