Example sentences of "and lay [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 2 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 3 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 4 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 5 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 6 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 7 | She reached for her mother 's photograph and laid it in the case with the rest of the things . |
| 8 | On Christmas Eve , 1950 , nationalists stole the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey and laid it in the grounds of Arbroath Abbey . |