Sentence examples for lay a copy from inspiring English sources

On his desk lay a copy of The New York Times open to coverage of the primary election under way that last morning, Sept. 11.

The Treasury will also lay a copy of the transfer instrument before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of the Banking Act 2009.

"This states that Scottish ministers should lay a copy of a direction given to the authority (SPA) before the Scottish Parliament.

If you have any pictures of him, lay a copy of his "schedule" next to the picture just so you remember how busy he is.

On her table lies a copy of a book by Sally Clark, the late solicitor who was found guilty and then acquitted of killing her two sons.

At the top of one stack lay a wet hardcover copy of the Bible and other books that looked like they might have been water damaged.

On Wednesday night Dr. von Hagens's subject lay beneath a copy of that painting.

A few fragments of clothing lay on a copy of The Egyptian Gazette, an English-language newspaper dated Dec. 22, 1922, six weeks after the discovery of the tomb.

Upon its exit, we see the father puppet beaten up and confined to a jail cell, where he lies with a copy of Mao's Little Red Book over his face.

On the glass coffee table of Death Cab for Cutie's swish suite in London's K West hotel lies a well-thumbed copy of Tatler: unusual reading material, perhaps, for travelling rock musicians.

But Atkins is then enjoying a boom: some months before, Gary Taubes published a pro-Atkins polemic in the Times Magazine ("What If It's All Been a Big, Fat Lie?"), and a copy of New York that Leith picks up declares, "Welcome to a City in the Throes of CARB PANIC".