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Example sentences for "laid before"

  • I have directed a copy of the letter and resolve to be laid before you.

  • I have directed a copy of the letter which accompanied the said articles, from His Excellency Joshua Clayton to the President of the United States, to be laid before you.

  • Although Beecke has been here, as well as Schubart, they all agree that he surpasses them both in beauty of tone, in gusto, and delicacy; and what they most admire is his playing out of his head whatever is laid before him.

  • Mozart can play any difficulties, and whatever is laid before him at sight.

  • I persuaded some one to give me quiet notice of his presence, and to induce him to bring an extraordinarily difficult concerto, which was to be laid before Wolfgang.

  • The Queen therefore wishes Lord John to ask the Duke to send him the former precedents and to consider with his colleagues whether a modified recommendation cannot be laid before her.

  • The country is fully alive to its danger, and Parliament has perhaps never been in a more likely state to grant what is necessary, provided a comprehensive and efficient plan is laid before it.

  • Such a plan ought, in the Queen's opinion, to be distinctly promised by the Government, although it may be laid before Parliament at a later period.

  • I shall cause the papers on this very transaction to be laid before you.

  • Under this head is included action upon statutory orders, where the act provides, as it usually does, that the order shall be laid before Parliament, and shall not go into effect if either House adopts an address with that object.

  • Correspondence relative to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty has been continued and will be laid before Congress.

  • It has been furnished with instructions which will be laid before you.

  • Their replies will in due time be laid before you.

  • As all the documents relating to this occurrence will be laid before Congress, it is not necessary to enter into further detail respecting it.

  • Some progress has been made in the survey, and as soon as it is completed the result will be laid before you.

  • The inquiry, he said, should be as extensive as possible, and he proposed the 2nd of February for the discussion; and expressed a hope that all papers called for might be laid before parliament.

  • Hence the colonists made a show of resistance by passing strong resolutions against the measure, which were transmitted to their agents in London, to be laid before government.

  • Parliament reassembled on the 14th of January, when his majesty spoke more at length on the subject of the American colonies, and said that the papers were ordered to be laid before them.

  • This treaty shall, in a short time, be laid before you.

  • The duty has been performed, and the report of the agent will be laid before you.

  • The affairs of the postal service are exhibited by the report of the Postmaster-General, which will be laid before you.

  • They ordered books and papers concerning that matter to be laid before them.

  • He reminded them that in the late war he ordered yearly accounts of the expenditure to be laid before them, and passed several Bills for securing a proper examination of accounts.

  • The despatches communicating these events were laid before congress, and were afterwards published.

  • The commissioners having fulfilled the mission confided to them, their report will be laid before you at an early day.

  • The story of this successful campaign is told in the report of the Secretary of War, which will be laid before you.

  • Mr. Peck's report will be laid before you.

  • The programme which will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Navy is similarly conceived.

  • The practical particulars of the part we have played in them will be laid before you in the reports of the executive departments.

  • Other and more detailed recommendations with regard to taxes will no doubt be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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