Example sentences of "stay [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and stay wedged deep in a burrow all your life , |
| 2 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 3 | Because it 's silly to stay locked up in a house just because you 're afraid of someone . " |
| 4 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 5 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |