The only thing we don't know is whether our carefully laid plans will in fact work.

Whether or not the meeting was part of that carefully laid plan, none could have said.

She carefully laid her brush on the table and turned to face him.

But at the opening meeting today, the carefully laid plans began to fall apart.

Inside it a fire, not yet lit, has been carefully laid.

This had also been, very clearly, a carefully laid trap.

She'd carefully laid a trail to Florida, having driven east for four hours.

A moment later, he carefully laid Eleanor close to the house, well out of the rain.

All the plans for your escape have been carefully laid.

So, eight months, a year, and his carefully laid plan would come to fruition.