1.   A group of young men were always at the stage door, trying to lay siege to the girls.

2.   SACKED Timex workers in Dundee intend to lay siege to their factory in an attempt to get their jobs back.

3.   Before things get too sticky in the romance department, though, the rebels lay siege to the plantation house.

4.   Israeli forces also continued to lay siege to Bethlehem, where a number of suspected Palestinian militants are holed up in the Church of the Nativity.

5.   Many things can lay siege to mezuzas and tefillin.

6.   Spanish companies lay siege to Brazil and Mexico.

7.   Such squabbling belongs on college campuses where the need to fuss about something leads whining sophomores and grumpy graduate assistants to lay siege to the faculty lounge.

8.   With the final element in place, it was time to lay siege to the record companies again.

9.   A warlord who controls fighters trying to lay siege to Kandahar, the last Taliban stronghold, also said he opposes forming an interim government in Germany.

10.   Although Menelaus has induced the Greeks to lay siege to Troy to avenge the perfidy, Troy remains impregnable until the Greeks conceive of a cunning plan.