Example sentences of "[pron] stay at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 2 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 3 | Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home . |
| 4 | I stay at home and my partner — for I 'm not a wife — puts on a suit and goes out of the door to work . |
| 5 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |
| 6 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 7 | I stayed at home as much as possible while I took massive doses of testosterone , the male hormone . |
| 8 | I stayed at home on Sunday while my wife and son went to church . |
| 9 | Would you mind terribly if I stayed at home ? ’ |
| 10 | Mum and Davey had gone to the morning service ; I stayed at home recovering from a bad cold . |
| 11 | I was in the Drama Club when I was when I stayed at home , but we did n't do pantomimes , we we did plays , one act plays , and three act plays , we did three act plays . |
| 12 | Er no , thankfully , no , no , no I stayed at home while other people got er shot at . |
| 13 | I stayed at Bilen for four days . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do n't you stay at home and help Aunt Bedelia with the dandelions ? ’ he suggested . |
| 15 | Did you stay at hospital after you 'd finished your training ? |
| 16 | ‘ One of the couples is dividing the babysitting so that she stays at home and he goes out to do the babysitting . |
| 17 | We hear about the sensitive New Age man who stays at home and changes nappies — but , actually , I do n't think these men are any more satisfying to women than any other male role model for the past 2,000 years . ’ |
| 18 | I WAS an infant teacher for 38 years and it always makes me angry when anyone says that a mother who stays at home caring for her child is ‘ wasting her talents ’ . |
| 19 | Though I too have my outside proof of a professional self , I too am a woman who stays at home . |
| 20 | The classic one of the unmarried daughter who stays at home to look after parents for instance . |
| 21 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 22 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 23 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 24 | The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework . |
| 25 | In addition , the study showed that further income is generated by Irish people who stay at home to attend a festival instead of travelling abroad . |
| 26 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 27 | Gerd Krampe , of Rewe Leibbrand , a German retailer , gave clear advice to a recent conference of British retailers on the question of expansion abroad : ‘ You stay at home with your nice profits . ’ |
| 28 | I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill . |
| 29 | McEnroe insisted that she stay at home and look after Kevin , six , Sean , five , and one-year-old Emily . |
| 30 | I admire the strength of my kinswomen who stayed at home and who later on embraced arranged marriages . |