Example sentences of "[vb base] to stay at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 2 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 3 | So you 've got twenty nine students in the class and fifteen want to go to Whitby , and eight want to go to Scarborough , and three little piggies want to stay at home . |
| 4 | We want to stay at Acklam Park , ’ he added . |
| 5 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 6 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 7 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
| 8 | It is girls who tend to stay at school longer and in the secondary cycle outnumber boys ( making up 52 per cent of total enrolment in 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Many of those women who choose to stay at home and bring up their children are made to feel guilty by outsiders ( often in the media ) implying that they ‘ should ’ be working . |
| 10 | Well , of course this option must be open , but the needs of the women who choose to stay at home , if only for a short time , can not be ignored . |
| 11 | Those who prefer to stay at anchor can do so in the area north of the marina , just inside the line of buoys and the remains of an anti-pollution boom . |
| 12 | ‘ And I prefer to stay at Les Hiboux . |
| 13 | For those who wish to stay at home , or who can not obtain a move , Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need to improve housing conditions . |
| 14 | Help to stay at home : |
| 15 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 16 | I 'll have to give up work to stay at home and look after him . ’ |
| 17 | We are not going to use violence , we are not going to tell girls they ca n't go out and play in the streets , that they have to stay at home . |
| 18 | But it 's just as sad if highly qualified and trained women lose everything they 've worked for because they have to stay at home . |