The phrase "always lay on" is not correct in standard English usage.
It may be an attempt to convey a sense of consistently applying or maintaining something, but it is not a recognized expression.
Example: "She always lays on the charm when meeting new people."
Alternatives: "always applies" or "consistently uses".
In Cambodia "accountability and change always lay on the horizon.
"We can't always lay on those laurels where we keep saying that we're still learning or we're still improving," he said.
You don't always lay on a spread of ham sandwiches, prawn cocktail crisps and jam tarts when you're in its presence.
The immobilized animals always lay on their side and were weighed by use of a Salter® 690-300S, or a Teo 500 scale, Landgraff & Flintab Vekter AS, Skedsmokorset, Norway, depending on the size of the animal.
For 4 years, this mare was used for breeding, but the signs deteriorated to the point that when the mare rested, she always lay on her side, and euthanasia was strongly suggested by the clinician.
This dot always lay on a circle defined by the antibody directed against the N-terminus of Cep152, consistent with direct binding between the two proteins (Cizmecioglu et al., 2010; Dzhindzhev et al., 2010; Hatch et al., 2010).
As you can see from the illustration below left, the centre of a coin that is touching either one or two sides of the square must always lie on a smaller square.
They might differ on the best way to do it, but fundamentally their interests always lie on the same side.
Authorial sympathy in Pynchon's novels always lies on the "transcend all questions of power," countercultural side of the struggle; that's where the good guys — the oddballs, dropouts, and hapless dreamers — tend to gather.
The foci always lie on the major (longest) axis of an ellipse, spaced equally on each side of the centre.
The line L always lies on the curve κ , and line L passes through the point ( T ∗, κ ( X T ∗ ) ) with the slope κ ′ ( X T ∗ ).
