Example sentences of "[vb pp] to stay [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 2 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 3 | The tags , stuck on with tape , were expected to stay in position for up to three months . |
| 4 | Officials could not say if the Queen Mother was expected to stay in hospital for a second night and did not divulge the nature of the obstruction . |
| 5 | Equity had come to stay as part of the law of the land . |
| 6 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 7 | In these cases it can be useful to know whether the interpreters are instructed to stay in role at all times or whether they may step out of role . |
| 8 | Thousands of commuters once again decided to stay at home rather than try to beat the rail strike . |
| 9 | However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas . |
| 10 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 11 | He must be pretty bad if she 's got to stay at home . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got to stay on top of this story ’ , said Tom . |
| 13 | You 've got to stay in bed till Doctor comes . ’ |
| 14 | Professor Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson , of Manchester University , say it is vital for Britain 's economic future that more young people are persuaded to stay at school after 16 . |
| 15 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 16 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 17 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 18 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 19 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 20 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 21 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |
| 22 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 23 | Following discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , Bond has agreed to stay at home rather than attend the match and provoke violent scenes on the terraces . |
| 24 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |
| 25 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 26 | Bhattarai tendered his resignation to the King on May 14 but was asked to stay in office until the formation of a new Cabinet . |
| 27 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 28 | Hundreds of children are being forced to stay at home because its feared high winds could damage their school buildings . |
| 29 | Four months after the Eliots returned from their disagreeable holiday in North Africa , he contracted a virus and was forced to stay in bed for two weeks ; once more the rhythm of illness and flight from illness established itself . |
| 30 | But workers were encouraged to stay on bench after hours , at weekends and bank holidays as part of the war effort . |