Or maybe you're in the park on a summer day, the pages spread before you.

We sit at a table and begin to spread the Black file before us.

He spread the notes before him and, in a high voice, began to speak.

He was not thinking of the charts and figures spread before him.

HE spread one of these upon the desk before him.

Scores of color photographs were spread across the table before her.

A pile of books was spread out, open, before her.

He thought of the days as they spread before him.

"News of your victory has spread before you," he continued.

Terrorism had been spreading in the region for many years before 9/11, a day we all remember.