Example sentences of "stay [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it seems , she added in silent self-reproach , that I stay all right at the expense of everybody else . |
| 2 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 3 | Rarely did the family eat so much , break so many eggs for a single meal , or stay so long at the table ; the pleasure of idleness rocked her limbs , the restless noise of her own worries grew still and their voices faded in her head . |
| 4 | When this happens , cells stay much longer in the progress zone than they normally would , and very few cells leave the progress zone at early stages . |
| 5 | Only under a secular constitution can a nation of nearly 850m people that is divided and then sub-divided by race , religion and caste stay peacefully together for the journey ahead . |
| 6 | A play runs for two weeks , but books stay up there on the shelf . |
| 7 | Many crustaceans , indeed , have done so — sand shrimps and beach hoppers stay quite close to the sea ; pill bugs and penny sows have colonised moist ground throughout the land . |