Sentence examples for neglected to lay from inspiring English sources

We're still waiting for a full review of the case, but the best answer we have right now is that the prosecutor decided there wasn't enough evidence for a conviction, and police neglected to lay charges.

The result is that at a time when the nation is looking for ways to battle unemployment, big companies are creating fewer jobs, and critics say they are neglecting to lay the foundation for future growth by expanding into new businesses or building new plants.

They just neglected to play defense.

"The ones who neglect to correct lie to lay, then tell me Suellen isn't a character from Gone With the Wind, but from the TV show Dallas?" One day, as we were talking, I mentioned, guiltily, that I'd never read Proust.

Downing Street neglected to tell journalists that the police had passed on to the Home Office their suspicion that Mr Davies was lying.

He neglected to mention Dryden.

But she neglected to take careful measurements.

She neglected to cool the mark out.

I neglected to say "thin-skinned".

He had neglected to pull the pin.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.