Example sentences of "stay [adv] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He stays somewhere in the middle portion of the gunsight , but the pipper refuses to stay on him .
2 Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term .
3 She had stayed willingly in the secluded garden with the soldier , had not voiced a single protest at his boldness .
4 No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ?
5 And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ?
6 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 .
7 There was little reason to stay on in an empty house , Belinda decided as she covered and refrigerated the kedgeree after her father had left .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Does he want me to stay here in an English prison ? ’
10 Advertisements classified to put in newspaper/magazine for sale/wanted who dares to stay overnight in the Haunted House ? cards in shop window " Lost — one dragon ! " display advertisements/posters .
11 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 .
12 Our guests will stay either in the original hotel or the modern gastehaus which is about 100 yards away .
13 Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World .
14 A French lieutenant holding a bunker in the village noted that under the bombardment ‘ this vast block , 30 metres square , oscillated , at times actually rising up , like a ship ’ Yet still the suicide machine-gun nests stayed behind in the pulverised debris and mowed down the German assault waves .
15 But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails .
16 They stayed mainly in the front room where there were rugs on a black-flagged floor that made it wonderfully cool to come into from the burning heat of the headland .
17 By contrast , trade unionism through which Owen had intended to organise the Country as an industrial democracy stayed out in the legal cold .
18 Two weeks ago in Yugoslavia , we stayed overnight in a private house offering bed and breakfast accommodation .
19 It stayed there in the shallow water for a while .
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