Sentence examples for had lay from inspiring English sources

Many dioceses already had lay committees on sexual abuse, but some were composed largely of church employees or others close to the bishop.

A short while later, he poked his head out the front door, and he told me that he watched as a group of police officers responding to the incident stood by the spot where he had lay on the sidewalk.

Shorten used a visit to Uluru on the 30th anniversary of its handover to traditional owners to say Indigenous recognition could not afford to be "empty poetry" and had lay to rest "the ghosts of the discrimination" haunting the constitution.

That these girls had taken part in the ceremonies, that they had lay on a bed naked from the waist down during them, that other older women, such as their mother and paternal grandmother, were in the room reciting prayers, these were facts that were not disputed.

However, policymakers had lay little attention on this matter.

"So, whatever thing they had, lay it aside, because it's about Ferguson.

Eyjafjallajökull had lain dormant since 1821.

Here it had lain for five hundred years.

Wasps had lain siege to the barn.

She had lain down to die.

For years, the case had lain dormant.