She lay down on the bed, her feelings concentrated at the forefront of her mind like an immensely weighted black point, incomprehensible.

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And campaigners say she lay down many of the priorities still adopted by the contemporary early-years movement, which recognises the first three years of a child's life as crucial for its development.

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She went so far as to lay out in some detail exactly what she was seeking, right down to a diagram of the size of the keys.

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Why would the employer lay down the extra cash for more expensive female talent, except that she is way more talented than the other men and the women?

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She laid him back down and walked around the bed, working the sheet until it lay reasonably flat.

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