I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird lays its eggs
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The bird lays a single egg on the ground.
draw up/lay down a code (= create one )
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The syndicate decided to draw up a code of conduct for its members.
fit/lay a carpet (= cut it to fit a room and fix it to the floor )
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Will it cost extra to have the carpet fitted?
give your life/lay down your life (= die in order to save other people, or because of a strong belief )
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These men gave their lives during the war to keep us free.
laid down by statute (= established by law )
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Protection for the consumer is laid down by statute .
laid...groundwork
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His speech laid the groundwork for independence.
laid...wreath
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The prime minister laid a wreath at the war memorial.
lay a pipe
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They were digging a trench to lay water pipes.
lay down a principle (= describe a principle and make it accepted )
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The report lays down general principles for the teaching of English.
lay down/establish ground rules for sth
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Our book lays down the ground rules for building a patio successfully.
lay down/set/impose conditions (= say what sb must agree to )
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They laid down certain conditions before agreeing to the ceasefire.
lay flat on...back
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That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
lay flat
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He lay flat on the floor.
lay mines (= put them in place )
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They learnt how to lay mines .
lay off employees (= stop employing them because there is no work for them to do )
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Unions fear that many part-time employees will be laid off.
lay on/put on entertainment (= organize and provide it )
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The organizers laid on some entertainment for the children.
lay reader
lay...eggs
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Blackbirds lay their eggs in March.
lay...foundations
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It took the builders three weeks to lay the foundations .
lay/place sth end to end (= in a line, with the ends touching )
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The roof tiles are laid end to end.
lay/run a cable (= put one in position somewhere )
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In the 1860s the first cables were laid under the oceans.
lay/set a trap (for sb)
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Mr Smith has walked straight into a trap laid by the Tories.
place/lay emphasis on sth formal
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The coach has placed the emphasis firmly on youth by including three teenagers in the team.
place/put/lay a bet on sth
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She placed a bet on a horse called Beethoven.
prepare/lay the ground (= to provide the situation or conditions in which something can develop successfully )
set/lay down a standard
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The government sets standards that all hospitals must reach.
set/lay the table (= put knives, forks etc on a table before a meal )
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The table was set for fourteen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ahead
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These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead .
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Although generally optimistic, Dan knew that more challenges lay ahead .
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Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead , as the shoreline curved to meet me.
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And almost alone among the early Hmong arrivals, he could see that storm signals lay ahead .
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But that life was over now and a new one lay ahead .
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But no one was better equipped for the psychological warfare that lay ahead .
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Then the nakedness was covered: he had seen what lay ahead .
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The turning point into a new year was a thoughtful time, when one weighed the past against what lay ahead .
aside
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On the day of the wedding, just for a short while, all strife was laid aside .
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By then, he supposed, he would have enough laid aside to begin his own business.
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They must also lay aside their personal feelings.
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He could afford to lay aside his anger against the Trojans.
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There were of course occasions when Franz's great sword was laid aside , other instruments being required for the administration of justice.
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A few weeks later I laid aside my steak knife for good.
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Big sentences about Britain's place in the world have been laid aside .
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I clambered on to the wheelbarrow, to pray for a healing miracle, laying aside my glasses and hat.
down
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Strips of old carpet had been laid down in rows, like pews.
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When we halted... the rebels halted and lay down on the ground.
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Collective bargaining is a flexible instrument and can build upon the minimum standards which the law lays down .
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She raised her head off the bed, lay down on her side and curled up.
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She laid down her Cosmopolitan magazine, open at fashions, loose flowing shirts in jewel colours.
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I went into my parents' room and lay down on the bed.
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It is the sort of knowledge that may be laid down in rules and can be learned from books.
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There is no requirement that harm be sustained before the law may intervene to lay down moral standards.
off
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It is also laying off 230 of its 750 Coventry staff.
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Out of the last 15, three have been laid off because of more senior teachers taking their place.
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Certainly, an emergency on the first flight after a long lay off provides the potential for an incident.
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But there was a budget cut after a year, and I was laid off .
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The prescription is expected: lay off the climbing and get stuck into physiotherapy.
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The disenchantment affects all workers, even before they are ever laid off .
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Drunks would be laid off immediately, and could only return when sober.
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Dan Reynolds, a self-confident engineer with twenty years' experience with large companies, was laid off in 1992.
out
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Uncle Philip was laid out on a charcoal grill like a barbecued pork chop.
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Now he was laying out a polo field next to the house.
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The table of transition probabilities for the travel example would be laid out as shown in Table 6.2.
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Even the plastic gloves next to the tray were laid out carefully, as if the fingers were still in them.
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I lay out the old chipped Spode cups and saucers.
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The logic was good, the ingredients were laid out correctly - from them he should be able to recognise the receipt.
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To get it laid out in the most effective way.
■ NOUN
blame
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Whatever its cause, that decline makes it harder to lay blame for any recent severe weather on El Chichón.
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These stories choose to measure the price of things rather than to lay blame .
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Margolin lays the blame above all on Mao's ideological fanaticism.
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And when the results come back, Piccirillo avoids laying blame .
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It's difficult to know exactly where to lay the blame .
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The inquest laid no blame , and no one has ever been charged in connection with the case.
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It could have been switched around by anyone, hoping to lay the blame elsewhere.
carpet
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It had been shattered along with the glass tank, the debris of which lay scattered on the carpet .
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During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books.
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Under a wooden veranda lay a spread of carpets and divans.
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We want to lay a plain carpet in our lounge, but we're not sure which way the pile should go.
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It was April, and a lozenge of sunlight lay across his carpet .
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The small grey and red-edged squares of the pamphlet and Time lay on the pale carpet of needles.
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We'd laid down on the carpet and the minute I'd put it in her I'd come.
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Along the narrow landing at Mrs Parvis's were laid pieces of carpet to cover the cracks in the lino.
claim
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No particular religion can ever embody the perfection of Religion or lay claim to a monopoly of Truth.
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You know, Earl, I never laid no claim for Beatrice.
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Mill's most famous innovation lay in his claim that quality of pleasure counts as well as quantity.
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Shoveling is considered so nasty that the tortured feel they must reward themselves by laying permanent claim to their handiwork.
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Do you mean that only Nobel laureates and their peers can lay claim to the hallowed occupation of research?
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Ray McGovern and the other protestors at the 9: 15 liturgy were laying claim to this legacy of principled dissent.
egg
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Look for a butterfly laying its eggs .
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They lay their eggs in midwinter, incubating their eggs and chicks through many blizzards.
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Within an hour or so of reaching the pond and becoming clasped in amplexus, females start to lay their eggs .
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A female toad may lay 20,000 eggs each season; perhaps a quarter of a million in her lifetime.
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On his way out, Jack stole the goose that laid the golden eggs .
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There is one other bizarre adaptation used by the female cuckoo in laying her eggs .
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An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs .
emphasis
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The Labour government laid its emphasis upon local authority housing rather than on private building for sale.
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They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets.
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They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities.
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Also, different kinds of organizations lay the emphasis on different views.
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Dobry laid great emphasis on consultations and meetings between applicants and the local planning authority, particularly in relation to Class B applications.
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Lord Watson laid the same emphasis in his speech, at p. 212.
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This view was so widely attractive that Themistokles himself was constrained to lay more emphasis on a nearer enemy, Aigina.
floor
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This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor .
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A fat young man lay spread-eagled on the floor .
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I hobbled upstairs and lay on the floor to get my shorts off.
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Her skirt and top lay puddled on the floor where she had taken them off.
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She walked into the room, glancing only briefly at the shot CI5 man, who lay unconscious on the floor .
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I lay on the floor in the pale gauze of winter twilight, recalling all the Great Women of the Telephone.
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His binoculars lay abandoned on the floor .
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To examine the work, viewers must decide whether to tread on a flag laid neatly on the floor before it.
foundation
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But in Britain we have laid the foundations for recovery.
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Mr Knospe laid the foundation stone and drank his share of champagne at a party in his honor.
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The drama school training will only lay the foundations and prepare you for the profession you are joining.
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And in order to clarify his position he once more dives back into laying philosophical foundations .
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He laid some of the foundations of the Newtonian mechanics that was to replace Aristotle's.
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We are laying the foundations for further progress.
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In fact, I laid the foundation stone on his behalf on 29 March 1996.
groundwork
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What he is doing is laying the groundwork for the decisive moment and preparing his getaway.
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Commission officials, however, appeared to be laying the political groundwork to exclude Perot from upcoming debates.
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The project is intended to lay the groundwork for a subsequent full-scale study.
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They decided among themselves they needed to lay the groundwork .
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Fox is clearly laying the groundwork for peace talks to restart.
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It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.
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Then the elite persuaded the newly elected mayor to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for redevelopment.
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Their task, simply put, was to lay the scientific groundwork for the manned landing missions that were then being planned.
plan
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We therefore laid our plans and moved out in good order over a long period of time.
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We immediately began laying plans for subsequent operations to achieve what we had been unable to accomplish at Pearl Harbor.
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The two countries were laying plans for a jointly operated early-warning centre that might help this.
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We consult an architect, laying our current floor plan before her and describing our needs.
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Taking care to avoid certain members of his household ... So the rational mind lays its rational plans .
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Undaunted, Galvin laid out a ten-year plan to make Motorola the leader in the industry.
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Meanwhile, the moment there was a hint of spring in the air, she began to lay her plans .
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We then laid plans for the next voyage.
stress
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New legislation lays particular stress on appropriate assessment.
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Here we might look at the question why Gandhi should lay so much stress on the interrelation of Truth and ahi.
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In addition to the need for humility, discipline and singleminded devotion in the quest for Truth Gandhi lays stress on prayer.
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The Government are laying great stress on the possibility of a consumer-led recovery.
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She said that her interview had laid stress on personal circumstances rather than experience and qualifications.
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He lays particular stress on two consequences of this analysis, both of which are presented as advantages of Marx's theory.
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In the matter of ultimate aesthetic evaluation it laid stress on the intuitive response of the general public.
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Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
table
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Facing the audience he lay back on the table , screaming and moaning, as if he were going into labor.
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All these notions are laid on the table and dissected one-by-one with razor sharp perception and humor.
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Then I hear Gary returning and I go down to lay the table .
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The gun lay on the table .
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She moved up the stairs past the few skins that lay on a table and made her way into the office.
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My gun lay on a small table .
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In the kitchen Anne and Millie are laying the table for dinner, talking seriously.
wreath
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He had gone there to lay a wreath on every visit since.
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Clinton laid a wreath of red and white roses before a majestic memorial at Piskaryevskoye Cemetery.
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He was speaking after laying a wreath on the spot where the protestors died.
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David C.. Bolles, eldest son of Don Bolles, helped her lay a wreath at the foot of the monument.
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Charles, who laid wreaths in Hong Kong yesterday, played polo on her birthday in July.
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Take Chancellor Adenauer, in 1970, at the site of the former Warsaw ghetto, laying a wreath .
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This year, and for years to come, they will walk hand-in-hand to lay a wreath at Suzanne's grave.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kill the goose that lays the golden egg
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
lay a guilt trip on sb
lay an egg
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The first episode of the series laid an egg .
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A few species laid eggs beneath mounds of rotten vegetation that warmed as it decayed.
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Adults grow to varying sizes, depending on food available, and lay eggs in late summer.
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Female brush turkeys visit the males' mounds, lay eggs in them, and depart.
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Gravid female fig wasps enter figs, lay eggs and die.
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In turn the later reptiles could diversify on land when they could lay eggs away from a watery environment.
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The wasp lays eggs inside the eggs laid by the whitefly, thereby destroying the whitefly eggs.
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These mate, fly away and the females find new plants to lay eggs on.
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Within it, they copulate and lay eggs .
lay it on with a trowel
lay sb to rest
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At nightfall she was tired and lay down to rest .
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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We can't even lay him to rest .
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
lay siege to sb/sth
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After his victory Edward rallied his troops and marched north to lay siege to Calais.
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Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.
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He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
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In 476 they laid siege to Eion, which guarded the Strymon bridge.
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In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges; after a few days resistance Aimar's citadel capitulated.
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In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.
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She had laid siege to the typists' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs.
lay sth bare
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The depth of the problem is laid bare in the fact that 40% of 18- to 25- year-olds are unemployed.
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The excavation laid bare the streets of the ancient city.
lay your hands on sth
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Government reports, social legislation, anything she could lay her hands on that would better acquaint her with her work.
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He will sell anything he can lay his hands on in exchange for drugs, which includes any information he may have.
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I know exactly where to lay my hands on them.
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I like writing letters and reading anything I can lay my hands on!
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Kabari women use whatever birth control technology they can lay their hands on.
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Looters carried clothes out of shop windows along with anything else they could lay their hands on.
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Monday I felt driven to eat everything I could lay my hands on.
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Some one had to overturn the present political arrangements in the Limousin if he was ever to lay his hands on Hautefort.
lay/provide the foundation(s) for sth
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Tests on healthy people may lay the foundation for a vaccine to prevent AIDS.
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I think you have to lay the foundation for your success in terms of defense and rebounding.
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It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves, particularly the young.
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These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
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This theory also laid the foundation for the modern revolution in our understanding of the deepest parts of the earth.
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To generate fundamental knowledge that can lay the foundation for future advances in high-performance computing and communications.
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We could say that she is laying the foundations for dressing herself later on.
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What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.
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While incomplete, the steps that were taken laid the foundation for Workplace 2000.
lay/put sth to rest
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Many of the public's doubts have now been laid to rest .
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A second glance put my mind to rest , but for a moment there it gave me a turn.
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I think this definitely puts it to rest .
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Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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The time has come to put this to rest .
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
new-made/new-formed/new-laid etc
not lay a finger on sb
put/lay your cards on the table
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If they're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate, that's good.
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If we want to reach an agreement, we'll have to lay all our cards on the table.
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They're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate.
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Come on, you can lay your cards on the table in this house.
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The new rules appear to encourage parties to lay their cards on the table and facilitate early settlements.
put/lay/set down a marker
set/lay/clap eyes on sb/sth
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Bedford disliked Halsey the minute he set eyes on him.
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How could she possibly know, since he had not set eyes on the girl?
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I bonded on the second night I laid eyes on Hyakutake.
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Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla, seven, for the first time.
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Never anywhere have I set eyes on such a one.
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No sooner did she set eyes on the gentleman than she recognised his pecuniary position to be merely temporary.
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The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before you start packing, lay out all the clothes on the bed.
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Farley laid the gun down and surrendered.
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Moyers laid his case before the public.
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She laid $10 on the favorite, Golden Boy.
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She unfolded the map and laid it on the table.
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Turtles lay their eggs on the beach at night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He laid the money on the table as they walked out to the stoop.
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He lay down against a wall.
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He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures.
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Hey, I told him to lay off of me in practice.
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It does little more than lay a foundation of principles.
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It was as if a fall lay within her that she wasn't able to make.
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She lay against the pillows, her whole body numb.
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There had been long weeks when he lay sunk in gloom and introspection.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ahead
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These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead .
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Although generally optimistic, Dan knew that more challenges lay ahead .
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Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead , as the shoreline curved to meet me.
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And almost alone among the early Hmong arrivals, he could see that storm signals lay ahead .
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Already she was terrified of what lay ahead .
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It had been a good spring for the President, but trouble lay ahead .
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But that life was over now and a new one lay ahead .
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But no one was better equipped for the psychological warfare that lay ahead .
■ NOUN
floor
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For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware.
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We consult an architect, laying our current floor plan before her and describing our needs.
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Changez lay writhing on the floor , unable to get up.
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A fat young man lay spread-eagled on the floor .
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A heavy iron bar lay on the floor beside my left hand.
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I followed him to a room in which bundles of magazines lay strewn on the floor .
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Breakfast was laid on the floor at the near end of the room.
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Dashed hopes lay all over the floor .
wreath
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He had gone there to lay a wreath on every visit since.
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Clinton laid a wreath of red and white roses before a majestic memorial at Piskaryevskoye Cemetery.
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He was speaking after laying a wreath on the spot where the protestors died.
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David C.. Bolles, eldest son of Don Bolles, helped her lay a wreath at the foot of the monument.
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Charles, who laid wreaths in Hong Kong yesterday, played polo on her birthday in July.
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Take Chancellor Adenauer, in 1970, at the site of the former Warsaw ghetto, laying a wreath .
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This year, and for years to come, they will walk hand-in-hand to lay a wreath at Suzanne's grave.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lay a guilt trip on sb
lay an egg
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The first episode of the series laid an egg .
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A few species laid eggs beneath mounds of rotten vegetation that warmed as it decayed.
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Adults grow to varying sizes, depending on food available, and lay eggs in late summer.
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Female brush turkeys visit the males' mounds, lay eggs in them, and depart.
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Gravid female fig wasps enter figs, lay eggs and die.
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In turn the later reptiles could diversify on land when they could lay eggs away from a watery environment.
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The wasp lays eggs inside the eggs laid by the whitefly, thereby destroying the whitefly eggs.
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These mate, fly away and the females find new plants to lay eggs on.
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Within it, they copulate and lay eggs .
lay it on with a trowel
lay sb to rest
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At nightfall she was tired and lay down to rest .
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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We can't even lay him to rest .
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
lay siege to sb/sth
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After his victory Edward rallied his troops and marched north to lay siege to Calais.
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Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.
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He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
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In 476 they laid siege to Eion, which guarded the Strymon bridge.
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In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges; after a few days resistance Aimar's citadel capitulated.
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In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.
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She had laid siege to the typists' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs.
lay sth bare
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The depth of the problem is laid bare in the fact that 40% of 18- to 25- year-olds are unemployed.
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The excavation laid bare the streets of the ancient city.
lay your hands on sth
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Government reports, social legislation, anything she could lay her hands on that would better acquaint her with her work.
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He will sell anything he can lay his hands on in exchange for drugs, which includes any information he may have.
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I know exactly where to lay my hands on them.
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I like writing letters and reading anything I can lay my hands on!
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Kabari women use whatever birth control technology they can lay their hands on.
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Looters carried clothes out of shop windows along with anything else they could lay their hands on.
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Monday I felt driven to eat everything I could lay my hands on.
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Some one had to overturn the present political arrangements in the Limousin if he was ever to lay his hands on Hautefort.
lay/provide the foundation(s) for sth
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Tests on healthy people may lay the foundation for a vaccine to prevent AIDS.
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I think you have to lay the foundation for your success in terms of defense and rebounding.
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It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves, particularly the young.
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These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
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This theory also laid the foundation for the modern revolution in our understanding of the deepest parts of the earth.
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To generate fundamental knowledge that can lay the foundation for future advances in high-performance computing and communications.
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We could say that she is laying the foundations for dressing herself later on.
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What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.
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While incomplete, the steps that were taken laid the foundation for Workplace 2000.
lay/put sth to rest
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Many of the public's doubts have now been laid to rest .
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A second glance put my mind to rest , but for a moment there it gave me a turn.
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I think this definitely puts it to rest .
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Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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The time has come to put this to rest .
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
new-made/new-formed/new-laid etc
not lay a finger on sb
put/lay your cards on the table
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If they're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate, that's good.
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If we want to reach an agreement, we'll have to lay all our cards on the table.
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They're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate.
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Come on, you can lay your cards on the table in this house.
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The new rules appear to encourage parties to lay their cards on the table and facilitate early settlements.
put/lay/set down a marker
set/lay/clap eyes on sb/sth
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Bedford disliked Halsey the minute he set eyes on him.
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How could she possibly know, since he had not set eyes on the girl?
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I bonded on the second night I laid eyes on Hyakutake.
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Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla, seven, for the first time.
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Never anywhere have I set eyes on such a one.
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No sooner did she set eyes on the gentleman than she recognised his pecuniary position to be merely temporary.
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The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He laid the money on the table as they walked out to the stoop.
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He lay down against a wall.
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He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures.
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Hey, I told him to lay off of me in practice.
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It does little more than lay a foundation of principles.
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It was as if a fall lay within her that she wasn't able to make.
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She lay against the pillows, her whole body numb.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brother
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Ranulf watched Corbett, the lay brother acting as interpreter, in deep conversation with the tavern-keeper.
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The door opened and he staggered, almost fell, into the arms of the astonished lay brother .
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A lay brother let us in through a postern gate where others took care of our horses and baggage.
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The Cistercian monks with their lay brothers administered the abbey wool trade.
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A lay brother came by, keys clanking.
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The lay brothers brought the fleeces to hamlet and village and collected the spun yarn and woven cloth from the workers.
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The next day, with a lay brother as a guide, Corbett and Ranulf left the abbey and journeyed south.
member
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The lay members have the same say as the chairman.
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The review was carried out by Vivian Rubinstein, a lay member of the Health Authority.
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She is also a lay member of the Stockport Family Health Authority.
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The group consists of both professional and voluntary lay members .
people
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Yet lay people had almost no way of making themselves heard in Rome.
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There are many lay people who share and live out of the same insight.
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Muhlenberg came to the point of urging lay people not to give gratuities at all, even to the licensed pastors.
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Sophisticated equipment, white coats and medical jargon serve to make most lay people feel ignorant and less important.
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With his lay people he had good fortune.
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He did not possess a markedly religious temperament, and most of his concerns were those he could share with lay people .
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But that, of course, is the rub: scholars want to make explicit what lay people know implicitly.
person
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The weakness of these controls throws the spotlight on the Police Complaints Authority composed of lay persons .
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Had he been a lay person , the choice would have been easy: conscience.
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A lay person would appear to be able to do little in this direction, except perhaps check with local trade associations.
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The libraries are well stocked with books on the law, many of them designed to help the lay person .
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No lay person ever claimed that dignity.
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Attendance or help by paid lay persons can also properly be the subject of a claim for expenses.
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If lay persons can tell the difference, why not some of those with a claim to expertise on these matters?
preacher
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Nonni was the daughter of a prosperous dealer in scrap metal who had also been a lay preacher .
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A non-conformist lay preacher , he fought the November byelection.
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A lay preacher , his house was the meeting-place of a gathered church by 1649.
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Many of its earlier leaders were lay preachers who entered politics in order to apply their religious ideals in practical ways.
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Les was a bit of a lay preacher , but did not push his views on anyone.
public
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Most of these symbols, though unintelligible to the lay public , hold great meaning and value to the nurses.
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The navy yards are religious sanctuaries completely inviolate on the part of the lay public .
subsidy
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The 1275 lay subsidy of a fifteenth fell also upon their temporalities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kill the goose that lays the golden egg
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
lay a guilt trip on sb
lay an egg
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The first episode of the series laid an egg .
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A few species laid eggs beneath mounds of rotten vegetation that warmed as it decayed.
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Adults grow to varying sizes, depending on food available, and lay eggs in late summer.
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Female brush turkeys visit the males' mounds, lay eggs in them, and depart.
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Gravid female fig wasps enter figs, lay eggs and die.
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In turn the later reptiles could diversify on land when they could lay eggs away from a watery environment.
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The wasp lays eggs inside the eggs laid by the whitefly, thereby destroying the whitefly eggs.
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These mate, fly away and the females find new plants to lay eggs on.
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Within it, they copulate and lay eggs .
lay it on with a trowel
lay sb to rest
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At nightfall she was tired and lay down to rest .
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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We can't even lay him to rest .
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
lay siege to sb/sth
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After his victory Edward rallied his troops and marched north to lay siege to Calais.
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Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.
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He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
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In 476 they laid siege to Eion, which guarded the Strymon bridge.
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In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges; after a few days resistance Aimar's citadel capitulated.
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In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.
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She had laid siege to the typists' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs.
lay your hands on sth
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Government reports, social legislation, anything she could lay her hands on that would better acquaint her with her work.
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He will sell anything he can lay his hands on in exchange for drugs, which includes any information he may have.
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I know exactly where to lay my hands on them.
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I like writing letters and reading anything I can lay my hands on!
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Kabari women use whatever birth control technology they can lay their hands on.
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Looters carried clothes out of shop windows along with anything else they could lay their hands on.
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Monday I felt driven to eat everything I could lay my hands on.
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Some one had to overturn the present political arrangements in the Limousin if he was ever to lay his hands on Hautefort.
lay/provide the foundation(s) for sth
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Tests on healthy people may lay the foundation for a vaccine to prevent AIDS.
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I think you have to lay the foundation for your success in terms of defense and rebounding.
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It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves, particularly the young.
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These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
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This theory also laid the foundation for the modern revolution in our understanding of the deepest parts of the earth.
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To generate fundamental knowledge that can lay the foundation for future advances in high-performance computing and communications.
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We could say that she is laying the foundations for dressing herself later on.
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What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.
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While incomplete, the steps that were taken laid the foundation for Workplace 2000.
lay/put sth to rest
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Many of the public's doubts have now been laid to rest .
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A second glance put my mind to rest , but for a moment there it gave me a turn.
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I think this definitely puts it to rest .
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Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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The time has come to put this to rest .
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
not lay a finger on sb
put/lay your cards on the table
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If they're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate, that's good.
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If we want to reach an agreement, we'll have to lay all our cards on the table.
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They're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate.
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Come on, you can lay your cards on the table in this house.
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The new rules appear to encourage parties to lay their cards on the table and facilitate early settlements.
put/lay/set down a marker
set/lay/clap eyes on sb/sth
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Bedford disliked Halsey the minute he set eyes on him.
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How could she possibly know, since he had not set eyes on the girl?
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I bonded on the second night I laid eyes on Hyakutake.
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Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla, seven, for the first time.
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Never anywhere have I set eyes on such a one.
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No sooner did she set eyes on the gentleman than she recognised his pecuniary position to be merely temporary.
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The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lay minister
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To the lay observer, these technical terms are incomprehensible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A non-conformist lay preacher, he fought the November byelection.
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At the same time, Louis summoned a series of assemblies involving both bishops and lay nobles.
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In contrast, many elders - leading lay people - are politically more conservative.
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On the other hand, there is the lay congregation, to whom biblical scholarship is totally unknown territory.
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The churches were bereft of most of their clergy and many of their most able lay members.
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The worship incorporates dreams, healing, trances, and a high degree of lay participation.
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With his dark good looks and meticulous personal style, he made a lasting, if rather forbidding impression on lay people.
IV. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kill the goose that lays the golden egg
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
lay it on with a trowel
lay siege to sb/sth
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After his victory Edward rallied his troops and marched north to lay siege to Calais.
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Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.
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He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.
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In 476 they laid siege to Eion, which guarded the Strymon bridge.
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In June 1176 Richard laid siege to Limoges; after a few days resistance Aimar's citadel capitulated.
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In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.
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She had laid siege to the typists' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs.
lay sth bare
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The depth of the problem is laid bare in the fact that 40% of 18- to 25- year-olds are unemployed.
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The excavation laid bare the streets of the ancient city.
lay your hands on sth
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Government reports, social legislation, anything she could lay her hands on that would better acquaint her with her work.
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He will sell anything he can lay his hands on in exchange for drugs, which includes any information he may have.
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I know exactly where to lay my hands on them.
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I like writing letters and reading anything I can lay my hands on!
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Kabari women use whatever birth control technology they can lay their hands on.
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Looters carried clothes out of shop windows along with anything else they could lay their hands on.
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Monday I felt driven to eat everything I could lay my hands on.
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Some one had to overturn the present political arrangements in the Limousin if he was ever to lay his hands on Hautefort.
lay/provide the foundation(s) for sth
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Tests on healthy people may lay the foundation for a vaccine to prevent AIDS.
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I think you have to lay the foundation for your success in terms of defense and rebounding.
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It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves, particularly the young.
▪
These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
▪
This theory also laid the foundation for the modern revolution in our understanding of the deepest parts of the earth.
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To generate fundamental knowledge that can lay the foundation for future advances in high-performance computing and communications.
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We could say that she is laying the foundations for dressing herself later on.
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What is stressed rather is that the same phenomenon provides the foundation for both historical tendencies.
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While incomplete, the steps that were taken laid the foundation for Workplace 2000.
lay/put sth to rest
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Many of the public's doubts have now been laid to rest .
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A second glance put my mind to rest , but for a moment there it gave me a turn.
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I think this definitely puts it to rest .
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Kwasniewski has said he may dissolve parliament to put the issue to rest and call for new elections.
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Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest .
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She took the pills and lay down to rest with her eyes closed.
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The time has come to put this to rest .
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Then she lay down to rest in the lounge, surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking.
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Without proof I should really lay the idea to rest .
new-made/new-formed/new-laid etc
put/lay your cards on the table
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If they're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate, that's good.
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If we want to reach an agreement, we'll have to lay all our cards on the table.
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They're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate.
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Come on, you can lay your cards on the table in this house.
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The new rules appear to encourage parties to lay their cards on the table and facilitate early settlements.
put/lay/set down a marker
set/lay/clap eyes on sb/sth
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Bedford disliked Halsey the minute he set eyes on him.
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How could she possibly know, since he had not set eyes on the girl?
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I bonded on the second night I laid eyes on Hyakutake.
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Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla, seven, for the first time.
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Never anywhere have I set eyes on such a one.
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No sooner did she set eyes on the gentleman than she recognised his pecuniary position to be merely temporary.
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The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the great lays - you can learn them, meantime.
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Failure to recognise slopes until committed to landing Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside.