Example sentences of "and lay [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 2 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 3 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 4 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 5 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 6 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 7 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 8 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 9 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 10 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 11 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 12 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 17 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She walked across to the dresser flattened the cheque out and laid it beside the bucket . |
| 20 | I was there when they took the Enchantment of the Beastline and laid it across the Silver Loom , and I was there as it fell to shreds in their hands . |
| 21 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 22 | I took my gun out of the closet and put two bullets in the magazine and laid it on the table beside my bed . |
| 23 | Louis carefully folded his handkerchief into a square and laid it on the deck beside his chair . |
| 24 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 25 | The teacher then took a length of string , cut it to the height of the child and laid it on the ground on top of the shadow of Leanne . |
| 26 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 27 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 28 | She put out her hand and laid it on the book , then said : |
| 29 | Gentle took off his heavy coat , and laid it on the chair by the door , knowing when he returned it would be warm and covered with cat hairs . |
| 30 | Then , on 11 April 1951 , they drove the stone to Arbroath and laid it on the altar of the ruined abbey , draped in the saltire flag of St Andrew . |