"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lay verbo

lay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 107
lay eggs • lay claim • lay siege • lay eyes • lay waste • lay plans • lay mines • lay souls • lay one's head • lay down one's arms • ...
verbo + lay
Kolokacji: 10
help lay • begin laying • want to lay • start laying • try to lay • ...
lay + preposición
Kolokacji: 91
lay out • lay down • lay off • lay upon • lay across • lay beside • lay beneath • lay beyond • lay up • ...
lay + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 140
lay ahead • lay dead • lay bare • lay low • lay aside • lay flat • lay motionless • lay open • lay quiet • lay dormant • lay unconscious • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 38
(2) bare, naked, defenseless
Kolokacji: 3
(3) low, quietly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) aside, away, side-by-side
Kolokacji: 3
(7) open, unopened, wide-eyed
Kolokacji: 3
(10) carefully, carelessly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) silent, silently
Kolokacji: 2
(12) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(14) helpless, helplessly
Kolokacji: 2
(16) thick, clearly, thickly
Kolokacji: 3
(17) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(18) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(20) ready, quickly, suddenly
Kolokacji: 3
(21) therein, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(22) well, comfortably
Kolokacji: 2
(23) alone, entirely, singly
Kolokacji: 3
(24) neatly
Kolokacji: 2
(26) undisturbed, casually
Kolokacji: 2
(28) straight, squarely
Kolokacji: 2
1. lay straight = połóż prosto lay straight
2. laid squarely = położony prosto laid squarely
  • Both problems can be laid squarely at the feet of senior management.
  • Back then, people knew the blame lay squarely with the bad guys, not the forces of law and order.
  • The responsibility for what had happened last night lay squarely on her shoulders.
  • "The playoff performance I lay squarely on a certain group of players and that's where it remains."
  • The blame for her misfortune lay squarely at his feet.
  • The choice, far from being taken away, was being laid squarely on him.
  • A large, furry cement block lay squarely in the middle of his chest.
  • Obviously, most of the blame here can be laid squarely at the door of Sudan's government.
  • On the other hand, all the glitter of his accomplishments lay squarely within his own world.
  • He had begun to open up slightly, but he was not yet ready to have the blame laid squarely on his shoulders.
(29) warm, deep, close
Kolokacji: 3
(30) limp, flaccid
Kolokacji: 2
(31) newly, freshly
Kolokacji: 2
(32) generally, loosely
Kolokacji: 2
(33) wherein
Kolokacji: 1
(34) successfully, unsuccessfully
Kolokacji: 2
(36) wakeful, sleepless
Kolokacji: 2
(37) beautifully, awkwardly
Kolokacji: 2
(38) tangled, forth
Kolokacji: 2

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