Sentence examples for laid for some from inspiring English sources

This was not new science, with much of the ideas and groundwork having been laid for some time.

Many scientists and philosophers believe that the groundwork has been laid for addressing at least some of the questions about animal consciousness in a philosophically sophisticated yet empirically tractable way.

There was no groundwork laid for it.

Tired of being corrected for misusing "lay" for "lie" and "laid" for "lay"?

She remained laid up for some time, before being put to varied use around England, Scotland and Ireland.

During this time, Mrs. Worden personally brought news of her husband's progress and recovery and was optimistic, informing the crew his eyesight would soon return but he would be laid up for some time.

There was a comparable problem in those cases where vessels were laid up for some time during the reference period (because of engine trouble, etc.).

For some of this, GoDaddy has been laying groundwork for some time, and it will be equally useful for the smaller of these three partners, Dwolla and Stripe, into pick up new business from the 12 million+ customers on GoDaddy's books.

While Amazon's fight has been rendered moot, this case lays groundwork for some tough and important conversations to come, raising a slew of fascinating questions around the technologies.

The pictures in Passenger Seat have been laying around for some time.

The pictures in Passenger Seat have been laying around for some time, so it's not like I've only been working on this book for all those years.