Example sentences of "stay [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Could n't I stay down a bit longer , please ? ’
2 But there were loads of spaces and I also happen to know that if you do n't stay long the hotel management does n't mind . ’
3 Very kindly , Carole and Ben Meadows invited them to come and stay over the weekend .
4 Staying on a bit , you see , to help Mr Kennedy here . ’
5 In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly .
6 Research also shows that many youngsters in residential care have experienced difficulties with schooling ; for example , over half of all boys in residential care have stayed down a class at least once .
7 It 's filled with supersafe play equipment that 's paradise for the bravest of young adventurers ( 12 years and under ) and it stays open every weekend through the winter .
8 Not valid for guests staying over a Friday or Saturday night .
9 ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that .
10 Sometimes Mother Francis and Miss Pine from the dress shop would take her on an outing to Dublin , but she had never stayed away a night .
11 From these diaries we know that Minton made between two and four visits to ‘ Marshalls ’ every year up until 1954 , staying usually a couple of nights and returning to London with sheaves of drawings .
12 She thought of staying here the night with him , and knew she could n't .
13 Thought you staying here the night . ’
14 The advertising vice-president who stays late every night working on next week 's layouts but who also has to begin making contingency plans for the expected launch of two new local advertising media campaigns three years hence has a responsibility time span of three years .
15 And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh
16 Bella had stayed there a bit , though , along with her ghastly cronies .
17 We 'll stay here the rest of the night and then move out before it 's light . ’
18 You will stay here an hour longer as a punishment for trying to deceive us . ’
19 Book 14 days ahead and stay over a Saturday night .
20 Attack any and every German plane , stay over the fighting , use up left-over ammunition on German troops .
21 Stay over the Jerry lines , and keep them busy , that 's all . ’
22 Stay off the streets , Stay inside .
23 If you do n't like the way I drive , stay off the sidewalk — car sticker
24 ‘ If you stay here a bit longer , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ and if you ride schooling satisfactorily , I do n't see why you should n't eventually have a mount in an amateur race , if you put your mind to it . ’
25 Stay here a moment and I will try to persuade her to see you — For what it 's worth , you have my blessing , but the decision is hers , of course . ’
26 Arriving at Verdun in May , he found the unit he was relieving had lost forty per cent of its effectives ; ‘ If you stay here a month , which is normal , ’ they warned him , ‘ you will lose half of yours too . ’
27 ‘ As long as you stay around the village and the paths I 'll show you tomorrow , you should n't have any problems . ’
28 Once fledged , young cuckoos stay around the nest site demanding more food from their foster parents for several days .
29 I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff .
30 At dawn , he would finally fall into bed and stay there the whole of the next day .
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