Example sentences of "[verb] to stay at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 2 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 3 | Beasant wants to stay at top |
| 4 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 5 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 6 | So you 've got twenty nine students in the class and fifteen want to go to Whitby , and eight want to go to Scarborough , and three little piggies want to stay at home . |
| 7 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 8 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 9 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 10 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 11 | Frederick , who is developing a sideline in composing , plans to stay at school until after A-levels before going to a musical academy . |
| 12 | Thousands of commuters once again decided to stay at home rather than try to beat the rail strike . |
| 13 | However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas . |
| 14 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 15 | He must be pretty bad if she 's got to stay at home . ’ |
| 16 | There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money . |
| 17 | Professor Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson , of Manchester University , say it is vital for Britain 's economic future that more young people are persuaded to stay at school after 16 . |
| 18 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 19 | He prefers to stay at home with his wife and two children , shunning ritzy Hollywood parties . |
| 20 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 21 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 22 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 23 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 24 | are you going to stay at school or go home ? |
| 25 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 26 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |
| 27 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 28 | Though money may follow the patient , postoperative morbidity tends to stay at home . |
| 29 | The others , he paid to stay at home and practise . |
| 30 | Following discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , Bond has agreed to stay at home rather than attend the match and provoke violent scenes on the terraces . |