Example sentences of "[conj] stay there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to go and stay there at Christmastime , after Father died , and there was always a nice present on the juniper tree for me and lots of good things to eat . |
| 2 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 3 | Keith goes to bed at 7.30pm each evening and stays there till 7am . |
| 4 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 5 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 6 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 7 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 8 | Just the three of us , my parents and me , would go down to Hury and stay there for two or three weeks , or until the work was done . |
| 9 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 10 | The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days . |
| 11 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 12 | I 'd go to Tenerife and stay there for ever . |
| 13 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 14 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 15 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 16 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 17 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 18 | He 'd go to earth and stay there till dark . |
| 19 | Go to your room and stay there until the morning . ’ |
| 20 | SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down . |
| 21 | In 1682 , he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years . |
| 22 | The two silent watchers dropped to the ground and stayed there without moving for a long time . |
| 23 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 24 | Screen debut — Sue joined Nationwide in 1972 , and stayed there for 12 years |
| 25 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |
| 26 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 27 | He went back into hospital and stayed there for five weeks . |
| 28 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |
| 29 | They had enough food and wine , and stayed there for the next five days . |
| 30 | Henry and I reached London in early October and stayed there for a few months . |