Example sentences of "stay [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 2 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 3 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 4 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 5 | If , rather than face unemployment , you would at least be prepared to consider staying on with a reduced salary or a lower level of seniority , you should make that clear . |
| 6 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 7 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 8 | not unhappy at staying away from a western business man , even though he might be a temporary guest of the State ; after all , they were permanent guests and who knew but … . |
| 9 | Remembering where Tweed had stayed once during a desperate operation in the past . |
| 10 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 11 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 12 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 13 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 14 | There have been several bad storms on the road and they have decided to break their journey to Madrid and stay overnight in a small town . |
| 15 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 16 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 17 | Dennis Skinner is likely to stay on with a reduced vote . |
| 18 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 19 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 20 | Statistics suggest that those whose marriages last beyond this period seem to have learned the secret of how to stay together in a stable relationship . |
| 21 | He was then persuaded to stay only by a last-minute promise of personnel changes at the top , but even senior Communist Party advisers had no idea how high-level these changes had been . |
| 22 | And he could be allowed to stay only by a direct order from the Home Secretary . |
| 23 | If they 've had to stay indoors for a wet break they 'll want to do something physically very active . |
| 24 | The only disadvantage is having to stay indoors on a lovely day . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was a serious fire and people were told to stay indoors as a precautionary measure . |
| 26 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 28 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 29 | Go there sometimes about four o'clock give them a feed out and then we used to I used to stay there in a small shelter there . |
| 30 | Throughout the tournament the popular Murray admitted to feeling enormous tension as he battled to stay ahead of a top-class field , which included eight members of the European Ryder Cup team . |