1.   During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books.

2.   In the main room a patterned, violet carpet had been laid in the centre of brown lino.

3.   The carpet was laid last week.

4.   They put down wooden boards, and laid new carpets on top.

5.   Tartan carpets have been laid in Balmoral.

6.   They had to pick their way around the rest of it, because the floors were mainly gone, although some big holes still had carpet laid across them.

7.   Carpets should be laid over padding.

8.   Even as the ship set sail on Saturday, several hours late, workers were still laying carpet and measuring curtains.

9.   Landscaping in Phoenix, laying carpet in Denver and, most recently, packing apples near Wenatchee in central Washington.

10.   Laying carpet to pay tuition at Arizona State University inspired Michael Worden to develop a better kneepad.