Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [was/were] laid [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about some development plan , then she says , ah , she did n't like how the houses were laid out because one was behind the other , but I saw the plan last time and , and , and it did n't look quite bad . |
| 2 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 3 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 4 | At one point it had been somebody 's house ; the gardens were laid out with palm trees , yucca plants and arranged flowerbeds . |
| 5 | In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months . |
| 6 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 7 | Maltwood believed that the figures were laid out in prehistoric times as a form of temple or sanctuary , using the natural forms of the landscape with a minimum of artificial alteration . |
| 8 | There were several chests and one great press , and on the tables were laid out some unfinished drawings and a litter of instruments . |
| 9 | She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up . |
| 10 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 11 | The Monday after the men were laid off I came home from school to find crowds of people gathered outside Miss Louise 's door chattering excitedly . |
| 12 | How the leys were laid out . |
| 13 | She went with a young lady … to a small office where the documents were laid out for signing . |
| 14 | The shales were laid down about 530 million years ago in a basin of the sea floor at a depth of about 150 metres . |
| 15 | The Saturday morning market in the yard was taken from the pattern of the street market , where the clothes were laid out in heaps on the ground with a decent garment on the top of each pile to tempt the passer-by to look further . |
| 16 | The victims were laid out in the churches to be claimed by relatives , many , reportedly , still showing a spark of life which was ignored in the general rush to clear up . |
| 17 | The grounds were laid out in 1787 . |