Example sentences of "stay [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't stay down here in the country until the wedding . |
| 2 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 3 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 4 | At one point , George Duke said to me , ‘ Why do n't you stay up here for a minute — I want you to play . ’ |
| 5 | In a slowly-run affair , Highbrook was given a lot to do and was staying on strongly at the death . |
| 6 | Staying so close to the palace will enhance your enjoyment , enabling you to make many mini-trips in between reading about the extraordinary life of its court . |
| 7 | If I 'd stayed any longer with the villain who sold me those QE2 boots , I 'd have walked from the shop with a case of tent pegs and a canoe . |
| 8 | Now Robyn threw herself into her work , staying up late into the night , as she had done in the early days of setting up her business , working with feverish persistence to complete a design . |
| 9 | She 'd stayed here once as a child with cousins but could really recall very little . |
| 10 | They make a sudden darting movement at the highest possible speed and then quickly freeze , staying quite still in the undergrowth . |
| 11 | Fish photography is probably best started with a species that stays relatively still on the gravel . |
| 12 | Wynne-Jones had been afraid of staying too long in the company of these changing spirits of summer . |
| 13 | And it seems , she added in silent self-reproach , that I stay all right at the expense of everybody else . |
| 14 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 15 | Rarely did the family eat so much , break so many eggs for a single meal , or stay so long at the table ; the pleasure of idleness rocked her limbs , the restless noise of her own worries grew still and their voices faded in her head . |
| 16 | When this happens , cells stay much longer in the progress zone than they normally would , and very few cells leave the progress zone at early stages . |
| 17 | Only under a secular constitution can a nation of nearly 850m people that is divided and then sub-divided by race , religion and caste stay peacefully together for the journey ahead . |
| 18 | A play runs for two weeks , but books stay up there on the shelf . |
| 19 | Many crustaceans , indeed , have done so — sand shrimps and beach hoppers stay quite close to the sea ; pill bugs and penny sows have colonised moist ground throughout the land . |
| 20 | The outgoing administration was asked to stay on meanwhile in a caretaker capacity . |
| 21 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said it was crazy for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town . |
| 22 | Mr Fallon said it was ‘ crazy ’ for the brochure to encourage people to stay so far from the town . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't know how we people of World 's End live , ’ she said quietly , ‘ so perhaps you would do well to stay indoors out of the way of any trouble . ’ |
| 24 | Pan Am ( see box on next page ) , Continental and Eastern have been able to stay aloft only under the protection of creditors provided by chapter 11 of America 's bankruptcy laws . |
| 25 | Tell him to stay well away from the balustrade . ’ |
| 26 | It was only just four o'clock now , so Dr Russell should stay safely out of the way for another ten minutes , by which time Deana would be gone again . |
| 27 | They stayed discreetly close to the cottage as the funeral proceeded in the adjacent churchyard . |
| 28 | The voice that is always compared to the young Sinatra , and always comes out better in the comparison stayed mostly out of the limelight as Harry let his sixteen piece band do the talking . |
| 29 | And , with a horrified shudder , it occurred to Folly that if she stayed any longer in the corridor she might hear more than talking in the room beyond the door . |
| 30 | They stayed close together at the edge of the clearing , Michael and the thin man with arrows ready notched , Hugh with his left hand on his sword hilt ; the Friar 's sack was now tried with a rope to his belt and slung over his shoulder . |