Object

• foundation: We can help you lay the foundations for the next phase of your life.

• egg: Queen with worker ants Army ant queens may lay 2 million eggs in a month.

• groundwork: The review was intended to lay the groundwork for progress, rather than deliver the changes needed to tackle the long-standing problems.

• blame: Genesis 3 will lay the blame for evil at the door of the human race.

Adjective complement

• dormant: This may lay dormant, or start to be active straight away.

Followed by a transitive particle

• aside: We must either lay self aside or God will lay us aside.

• out: He doesn't bother to lay out the criteria against which he's rating them.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: Playing Field Land laid out with a pitch or pitches for games.

• off: Forty percent of its staff has been laid off.

Particle object: down_obj

• gauntlet: Time to lay down the gauntlet: unveil your Grail, ye Grail Questors.

• rule: It is not possible to lay down specific rules in the form of a policy statement about what sort of advertisements may receive consent.

Particle object: up_obj

• treasure: Jesus said, " So is the man who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.