To say “lay down Sally” would imply that someone should grab Sally and lay her down. If he wanted Sally to rest in his arms on her own, the correct line would be “lie down Sally.” You lay something down, and people lie down by themselves. We don’t have to judge Clapton on ...
place something down. It needs a direct object (a book, a blanket etc.) for the action to be performed on. As we have seen above, lay is also the past tense of lie. Other meanings of lay: Lay can be used formally and colloquially in the following ways: As a verb meaning to ...
Present Continuous: The hens are laying well this year. (intransitive) Both forms oflayderive from an Old English verb meaning “to place on the ground” or “put down.” The twolieverbs come from two different Old English verbs, one meaning “to speak falsely,” and the other meaning “...
In a category often populated by small sets produced on a whim,Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer’s Child Balladsstands out as a hands-down winner this year. We named the collection, a close collaboration between two exceptionally talented players already at the top of their game, the go-to ...
My Lockdown Keynote on Reading for Pleasure June 28, 2020byCandy Gourlay By Candy GourlayI am pleased to share the video above of my virtual keynote before the Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils Conference of the Cheltenham Literary Festival – via Zoom, of course. The teachers in attendance...
Sally B wrote a review Mar 2023 Hotel's Favorite Roll on our next visit to Lanelay Hall! What a beautiful hotel & spa tucked away in the middle of a housing estate! However, Once you drive through the gates you w...
In a virulent outburst Zeffirelli first denounced Muti’s Scala regime: “La Scala has lost that magic. It has become the Vanity Fair of a mediocre conductor. The level of La Scala has gone down the sink.” And then he really got personal. Muti, he said, is “… drunk with himself,...
Grandma squatted down (蹲下), gave him a___, and said, “Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was standing at the window and I saw the___thing, but because I love you. I forgave you. I was just wondering how long you would let Sally make a___of you. If you make a mistake...
Molecular motions of the C-H bond vector with a given amplitude scale down the dipolar couplings resulting in a reduced coupling constant provided these motions are faster than ~40 μs. Typical dipolar dephasing curves for two independent preparations and measurements are shown in Fig. S...