1.   Flowers were laid to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon.

2.   Beneath the plaque, someone had laid flowers.

3.   A guard accepted gifts and allowed flowers to be laid at the gate but the Center declined offers of help.

4.   During those weekly pilgrimages, Forrester said she laid flowers bedecked with black ribbons at the spot where her son was slain.

5.   Flowers were laid along the wall, along with sympathy cards.

6.   Four teen-age girls beat us to him, laying flowers and lighting candles in the cigarette-studded sand pit by the headstone.

7.   Gore laid flowers at a wreath in the park, then consoled family members of the victims.

8.   Last weekend, Glenda Sue Caldwell laid flowers on the grave of the son she killed nine years ago.

9.   Mourners laid flowers on the covered bodies.

10.   Mr. and Mrs. Johnson said that after the decision they laid flowers at the grave of their daughter at a cemetery in Long Island.