Sentence examples for close to laying from inspiring English sources

Johnson added the goal and then went close to laying on a try with a kick out of hand.

Lawrence Fernandes, who, along with his brother, Sam, owns Larry and Sam's Seafood at the eastern base of the bridge, said he was close to laying off employees.

She comes close to laying the slaughter last year, by a lone gunman, of those 77 young Labor Party campers and others in Norway, at Ms. Hirsi Ali's feet.

He spoke a day after expressing optimism, in an interview with the BBC, that the Iraqi government was making progress in talks with insurgent groups and predicted that some factions could be close to laying down their arms.

I was fixing to honk, I was this close to laying on the horn, but then I suspected my wife had just told him to do it.

Rumsfeld and the civilian officials close to him laid out the case for a new approach to the war on terrorism, one that would rely, in part, on the killing of selected individuals.

In internal Defense Department memos, Rumsfeld and the civilian officials close to him laid out the case for a new approach to the war on terrorism, one that would rely, in part, on the killing of selected individuals.

I am now more than £10,000 in debt, with an immune system ravaged by Epstein-Barr virus (or glandular fever), pride swallowed, confidence shattered and, most importantly, my dreams and goals of the last decade close to being laid out before me in tatters.

One side detailed service cuts ranging from closing park fountains to laying off 1,755 police officers, along with a point value representing the savings each measure would produce.

The closest Mr Gingrich ever got to laying out a strategy came in the wake of South Carolina, when his spokesman said that "everything from Spartanburg all the way to Texas, those have to go for Gingrich".

A female, close to death after laying her eggs, hovered in shallow water near the bank.