Example sentences of "[pron] stay [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | Should I stay with a cheat ? |
| 3 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 4 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 5 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 6 | So I stayed on a few weeks and erm then I went back to London |
| 7 | I had been travelling the country flogging Soviet magazines — I was working for Collet 's bookshops — and I stayed with a comrade in Edinburgh who kept a boarding house . |
| 8 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | So I shall go when people rather wished I stayed in a way . |
| 10 | I recall when Nancy Leadbetter and I stayed in a terrible fleapit of a room in Siena . |
| 11 | It was the first occasion , but by no means the last , on which I stayed in a monastery . |
| 12 | I stayed in a flea-ridden inn whilst outside the sea began to seethe and boil under a sudden black storm . |
| 13 | At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area . |
| 14 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 15 | Stay at the Residence Orchidea and you stay at a friendly family-run complex of apartments in a quiet , residential area of Diano Marina . |
| 16 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 17 | You stay in a suite at Manila 's most elegant and historic hotel at the attractive rate of US$190++ . |
| 18 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 19 | Some were clergy who stayed for a week or two . |
| 20 | Cheap excursions brought the ‘ trippers ’ , but the holiday-makers who stayed for a week or two were still quite ‘ genteel ’ . |
| 21 | She stayed under a side table in the front room until in 1925 my own dog ‘ Nip ’ , a terrier , took a dislike to this strange animal with glaring eyes and proceeded to tear her to pieces . |
| 22 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 23 | The Pytchley , under Mr. George Payne , gave her two brushes — and three rousing cheers , for she enjoyed the first day 's hunting with them so much she stayed for a second . |
| 24 | During last week 's trip to Taiwan , she stayed in a £1,000-a-night luxury hotel suite . |
| 25 | You stayed in a hotel , I think ? ’ |
| 26 | It was the one thing you could n't do when you stayed in a hotel . |
| 27 | If you stayed in a nice hotel for a hundred quid a night |
| 28 | No we 're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party , the works Christmas party and erm , the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham , that 's where they 're doing Christmas party this year , so we obviously we staying in a double room |
| 29 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 30 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |