Example sentences of "have to stay [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 She was no giver-in , but sometimes she got very high temperatures and just had to stay in bed .
32 Liza had to stay in bed and Frankie was downstairs in front of the fire .
33 I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again .
34 But the next day I fell ill , and had to stay in bed for three weeks , which was very unusual for me .
35 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 .
36 The Englishmen gave Paddy a good hiding and made him so he had to stay in bed for a week . ’
37 I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’
38 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 .
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 After Darren was born , he had to stay in hospital an extra ten days because he suffered from epileptic fits .
42 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 :
43 You knew perfectly well I had to stay within reach of the hospital over the weekend .
44 We have to stay with product innovation , drive forward our successes , carry on improving and carry on being a better company to work for .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 When we are so ill that we have to stay in bed and be looked after , we are driven back even further into unconscious memories of having to call or cry for help for even the simplest needs .
48 He did not , however , have to stay in prison for long , for , without any publicity , a judge in chambers granted bail , and he slipped off home .
49 People with poor housing conditions have to stay in hospital longer .
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