Example sentences of "lay out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The broad rectangular market place , laid out at the gates of the former castle there , still exists as it was originally planned . |
| 8 | This brings us to the third , and for our purposes the most significant , of the problems laid out at the start of this section . |
| 9 | It was a town of factories and bars , its streets laid out on a grid pattern , its air a crude blend of oil , salt and gas . |
| 10 | One solution to this problem , used by Mortimer Wheeler , is to excavate a site in a series of medium-sized trenches laid out on a grid system . |
| 11 | Elsewhere in the country , there are groups of farm buildings laid out on a courtyard plan that can undergo a complete change of use with virtually no visible alterations to the external appearance . |
| 12 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 13 | Morris laid out on a table spotted with spilt coffee , invitations from Peter Stothard , Andrew Neil , Granada Television and TV-AM . |
| 14 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 15 | Why are certain English towns , for example , laid out on a gridiron pattern with straight streets crossing each other at right angles , sometimes at fixed distances apart , like a mid-western American city ? |
| 16 | The interview is basically a form of human interaction and may range from the most informal chat to the most carefully pre-coded and carefully systematized set of questions and answers laid out on an interview schedule . |
| 17 | Seeing Saad laid out on the floor , dumb and silent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Next door Boy saw , laid out on the floor of a darkened and otherwise empty shop , a selection of flowers for graves . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The children also collected small change from their piggy banks which they laid out on the school hall floor . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There were other diners at other tables , but he was alone , using his lunch break to fill in papers laid out on the cloth . |
| 26 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |