Example sentences of "stay [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | I mean we have to work very hard in our own er relationship we 've had our ups and downs we 've gone through many difficult times like unemployment and even homelessness and you know we we 've gone through it but when you make your promises you say you 'll stay together for richer for poorer in sickness and in health and so on . |
| 3 | Hopefully this time the bolts will stay in for good , as chopping and replacing them ( something which now seems an annual event ) is causing untold damage to this superb pitch . |
| 4 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
| 5 | If you had £50 , perhaps you would stay away for three months . |
| 6 | ‘ Ca n't you stay still for five minutes ? |
| 7 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 8 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
| 9 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 10 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 11 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 12 | Whenever the so-called yield gap ( long minus short rates ) goes negative , and stays so for longer than two business quarters , past experience suggests that the banks get badly bruised . |
| 13 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Normally , I say , I do n't see the point of staying in for this . |
| 15 | Canice added : ‘ I do n't see us staying together for ten or 15 years — we all want to do different things . |
| 16 | It stays away for two , three or even four years , it is deemed to be full-grown . |
| 17 | At festivals she went back home and often stayed away for several days , despite the knowledge that her late return would meet with an endless round of angry curses . |
| 18 | I do n't think she 'll be staying off for any great length of time , with the open day coming up I think she 'll be |
| 19 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 20 | Well I 'm staying up for one more game |
| 21 | And if you can be bothered staying up for this , it will take you through to 6am tomorrow . |
| 22 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 23 | Just before Christmas the family went to Versailles ( 4 ) , staying there for two weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ Three weeks at least , and he must stay here for that time . |
| 25 | ‘ The chances are a thousand to one that you might stay here for ten seasons and never see a boatman in a hurry , ’ quoted Sir Thomas loudly to his brood , waving a lordly hand towards William and Joe who were enjoying a quiet chew of tobacco at the end of the pier . |
| 26 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |
| 28 | But those who stay only for short periods of weeks or months are much more likely to be suffering from serious mental disorder than long term residents . |
| 29 | Couples stay together for any number of reasons other than happiness : questions of money , children , accommodation or idleness , depression , habit , fears above all : fear of what the neighbours will say , fear of loss of status — fear of going without sex being chief amongst them . |
| 30 | It will slide on as a whole line , from the bottom right hand corner ( which will take 50 frames to complete ) stay still for 120 frames , and then scatter off randomly over a period of 30 frames . |