Example sentences of "[vb past] to stay in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With tears pouring down her face , British Airways hostess Gillian Conway promised to stay in touch with eight-year-old Christopher Baldwick , a muscular dystrophy sufferer from Eaglesfield in Scotland . |
| 2 | It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed . |
| 3 | When Sonauto finally decided to stay in GP racing , Ruggia 's life returned to normal after months of high anxiety . |
| 4 | They failed ; but Baldwin had to abandon his original intention of resigning straight away , and decided to stay in office until the new Parliament met . |
| 5 | In the final Cadwallader struggled to stay in touch with the top class domestic field but he exceeded all expectations by taking more than four seconds off his best time when he ran 3m 44.04s in Saturday 's heats . |
| 6 | You managed to stay in work but , given the vast resources and prestige attached to music-making in the Third Reich , your career did n't exactly flourish . |
| 7 | Snegur asked to stay in office pending direct presidential elections , but the Moldavian Supreme Soviet refused his resignation , and instead formed a commission to formulate proposals to reform executive power in Moldavia . |
| 8 | ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better . |
| 9 | I had to stay in camp next day as there was strong opposition to my going out shooting . |
| 10 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 11 | She was no giver-in , but sometimes she got very high temperatures and just had to stay in bed . |
| 12 | Liza had to stay in bed and Frankie was downstairs in front of the fire . |
| 13 | I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again . |
| 14 | But the next day I fell ill , and had to stay in bed for three weeks , which was very unusual for me . |
| 15 | Lucy had to stay in bed as much as possible on doctor 's orders , Dad was spending more and more time on the golf course and in the pub to escape from what he called the ‘ pressures ’ , and Charles was in an increasingly pessimistic mood about the future of Chester 's . |
| 16 | The Englishmen gave Paddy a good hiding and made him so he had to stay in bed for a week . ’ |
| 17 | I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’ |
| 18 | He then had to stay in prison for two months while a schedule of his debt was prepared , he was examined by the court and he agreed to surrender his property . |
| 19 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 20 | Rosie had to stay in hospital for ten days , but on the first Monday morning after they let her out , she came round to visit the family . |
| 21 | After Darren was born , he had to stay in hospital an extra ten days because he suffered from epileptic fits . |
| 22 | She had not even had the support of her mother , sister , or boyfriend while she gave birth , and the baby had to stay in hospital for several weeks after she returned alone to her bedsit : |
| 23 | Between nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and six , increasing illness erm severely restricted Proust 's social engagements , and indeed because of his asthma erm he tended to stay in bed during the day , and get up only at night , though even those who do n't suffer from asthma have been known to adopt this regime for other purposes . |
| 24 | She really always wanted to stay in bed . ’ |
| 25 | I wanted to stay in bed this morning . |
| 26 | It was important for a dealer occasionally to make profits for clients , if he wanted to stay in business . |
| 27 | In a national broadcast President Mobutu Sese Seko announced on Dec. 4 that he intended to stay in office beyond his seven-year mandate . |
| 28 | In reply Cresson denounced the opposition for being " demolishers " damaging France rather than " builders " , and said that the government intended to stay in office until the end of the parliamentary term in 1993 . |