Sentence examples for lays hands on from inspiring English sources

Though in February, when one of them — or Mr. Pitt, or Leonardo DiCaprio, or someone else — lays hands on the statuette, I will of course be watching.

In the video, which was posted on YouTube, blurry teen-agers stream toward the stage, and McClurkin, speaking in tongues, lays hands on them.

Yes, a thinking pot -- one, moreover, that's been around since the beginning of human history, has total recall, can read the thoughts of anyone who lays hands on it and can change shape at will.

That pretty-boy psychopath who guns down PC Jack Warner in The Blue Lamp; the sleekly charming Simon Sparrow in all those Doctor comedies; his angsty Sydney Carton, soulful before the guillotine in A Tale of Two Cities; the sweatily menacing butler in The Servant, crushing James Fox into submission; the mournful sadist who lays hands on Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter.

That's when the critic's doting, overpossessive mother lays hands on "my treasure" and announces that she can't wait to personally give him his bath.

In this the WWW helps again, since many white-collar criminals don't seem to fully understand that an email is like a postcard, readable by anyone who lays hands on it – and erase it though they may from their hard drives, copies are lurking in Internet mail servers all over the U.S. – including "anonymous" Hotmail accounts.

As he blew up one of these, the Italian dealer laid hands on a fantastic treasure that turned out to have belonged to Kandake (Queen) Amanishakheto.

The RFU retained his services, largely because no one was kicking down the door to replace him, and duly laid hands on the Webb Ellis Trophy four years later.

Father Bourgeois gave the homily and laid hands on her.

The Paris police had little difficulty in laying hands on MM.

In 2008, Iowan churchgoers laid hands on an affable rock guitarist, Mike Huckabee.