Example sentences of "[pron] to stay in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly there are daily actions that help someone to stay in recovery just as the daily wearing of spectacles or contact lenses helps to overcome the effects of short sight . |
| 2 | " I want you to stay in bed Patrick , let's try and get rid of that cold before morning . " |
| 3 | A new 5-link rear suspension system stabilises the car , helping you to stay in control even in an emergency . |
| 4 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 5 | Jason , 24 , picked up an Indonesian souvenir — plus an ear infection which , he protested , forced him to stay in bed for days . |
| 6 | Eliot had a bad attack of bronchitis in June , which forced him to stay in bed for a week , but in July his sister , Marian , and a niece arrived from America and he went with them to Suffolk for ten days — the first holiday he had been able to take all year . |
| 7 | If we keep giving him pyjamas and dressing-gowns , we 're simply encouraging him to stay in bed all day long , do n't you see ? ’ |
| 8 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 9 | To diehards , Lloyd George was " the " Welsh Walpole " and friend of MacDonald who would peddle any opinion and give in to any Labour leader if it would help him to stay in office " . |
| 10 | So anyway , she got over it and all she had to do she she tell her to stay in bed now for s so many days but she 'd be up again the following day and then the nurse 'd come and have a look under her feet and she 'd say you been up again she 'd say . |
| 11 | The EIS supports small schools in cases where communities want them to stay in existence . |
| 12 | It would n't have made political sense in that how the , they were deliberately choosing cautious policy which would enable them to stay in power . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 14 | My brother , you see , has persuaded me to stay in Town , a further ten days at the least . ’ |
| 15 | What moral law can compel anyone to stay in prison if they can get out ? |
| 16 | But now I play it on the Jackson and the bridge is stationary , so it helps it to stay in tune a lot better . |
| 17 | For us to stay in contention in this group we need to get some sort of result . |