Example sentences of "stayed [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 2 | He stayed on as a civilian minister , preaching to both prisoners and garrison at Windsor , having in September 1647 became a fellow of Eton College . |
| 3 | Mr Carr retired from Dalepak in 1988 but stayed on as a nonexecutive director , and was also a non-executive director with Hartlepool-based building group Cecil Yuill . |
| 4 | Kieren began work for the authority as a trainee solicitor in 1982 and stayed on as an Assistant Solicitor until 1987 when appointed a Senior Assistant Solicitor . |
| 5 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From Pforta in 1864 he went to the University of Bonn to read classical philology and theology , but he stayed only for a single year . |
| 8 | An attempted coup in August was frustrated by the timorous behaviour of the Abuna , who stayed away from a crucial meeting . |
| 9 | Ecuadorean opposition leaders León Febres Cordero and Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz , however , stayed away from an official dinner held by Borja for Fujimori . |
| 10 | Fortunately , Dod and Chase had been provided with camping stools and although Dod 's creaked a bit under his weight , it did mean they stayed roughly in the same place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By contrast , trade unionism through which Owen had intended to organise the Country as an industrial democracy stayed out in the legal cold . |
| 15 | As Bf109s were reported they stayed well above the other squadron , but to no avail . |
| 16 | He stayed overnight at the nearby Penta Hotel . |
| 17 | Two weeks ago in Yugoslavia , we stayed overnight in a private house offering bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 18 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 19 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 20 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 21 | It stayed there in the shallow water for a while . |