Example sentences of "stay [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 I have never once heard a staff member say that would n't stay after the school day for some activity or other .
2 Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service .
3 This will be the case where , for example , a minister stays in a government department for only a limited period of time .
4 Some friends of mine are staying in the parish house for a holiday in my absence and in real need a key to the church may be obtained from them — but , please , only in real need !
5 It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months .
6 The imbalance is even more pronounced on any particular night as males stay at the breeding site for the whole season , whereas females mate and leave as quickly as possible .
7 Or at least , some of you may have been ; I contrived to stay in the departure lounge for all these Angst -ridden travelogues , and I ca n't say I 'm busting a gut to catch up with any of them .
8 ‘ It will be frustrating to have to stay in the Vauxhall Conference for another year , especially when so many clubs in the lower divisions are struggling to stay afloat . ’
9 The count stayed with the holiday party for 12 days but said he left when his relationship with Mellor became strained .
10 The castle stayed in the Durdin family for more than a century .
11 Cranking the aircraft around in order to spot the rest of the attacking aircraft and determine the damage caused to the target , the Blenheim stayed in the Bremen area for 10 minutes , attracting a great deal of flak and being hit about 20 times .
12 We stayed in the dining room for our coffee .
13 The Morane stayed in the Walton collection for around three years , during which time Lindsey 's thoughts turned to owning a larger , more powerful warbird type .
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