Example sentences of "stay [prep] [pers pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will you stay with me for a minute ? |
| 2 | " Will you come and stay with me for a while ? " she asked gently . |
| 3 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 4 | ‘ Only that if you could stay with her for a night or two , I might manage to get over and see you there . ’ |
| 5 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 6 | She knew that was one of many memories which would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | It would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 8 | ‘ I think so , but I 'll stay with him for a while , and just give him fluids . ’ |
| 9 | I always got on with my daughter , but she 's in Canada now , so I asked my son if I could stay with him for a bit . |
| 10 | ‘ But nice Dr Blake here is going to make it feel better , and I think , to be on the safe side , you 'd better stay with us for a while , just so that we can make sure the headache does n't get any worse . |
| 11 | Er , we originally , my wife and I , come from Scotland , and when you get people ringing up from er Scotland saying , well we 're just passing through en route to Paris , or Amsterdam , or somewhere , can we stay with you for a couple of days , it 's very difficult not to say , er , well , I 'm busy is n't it really , and you , you 've got to accept them really ? |
| 12 | What you learn in a lesson will stay with you for the rest of you life . |
| 13 | I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being |
| 14 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 15 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |
| 16 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 17 | Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two . |
| 18 | I do n't mean all night , I know you ca n't , but stay with me for the evening . " |
| 19 | All we ask of you in return is to buy at least one book from each of the Reviews and stay with us for a minimum of six issues . |
| 20 | The impact of visiting the massive tributes to monumental Egyptian architecture at Luxor , the Valley of the Kings , Cairo 's old town and many museums , and of course the great pyramids and Sphinx at Giza , will affect you and stay with you for the rest of your life . |
| 21 | I was so glad that the ‘ family ’ came to stay with me for a change . |
| 22 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 23 | She 'll have to stay on them for a couple of years , more than likely , perhaps for life . |
| 24 | She stayed with me for a couple of days before going on to Spain to my sister . |
| 25 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 26 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 27 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |
| 28 | She stayed with us for a month while we regained our strength , doing all the cooking and washing until my mother was fit enough to take over . |
| 29 | Fine weather stayed with us for the remainder of our passage down the East coast . |