My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven?

Though many details of enormous interest remained to be discovered, the foundations had been well and truly laid.

In this lay the foundations of the theory of a social contract between the governed and the governor.

Money was raised and a foundation laid in 1838 but the Panic of 1837 put a halt to the project.

A new church was commissioned and the foundation laid on February 14, 1917.

The building's foundation lay for five years unfinished.

And the foundation lays claim to getting 100 prostitutes off the street; there is no independent verification of that number.

The earliest pioneer of this district had thus, laid the foundation with his blood.

The new house on the ridge was already rising, foundation laid and rooms marked out.

Nearby, the foundations of an X-ray unit lay open to the sky.