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

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1 Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later .
2 Cutting down on training , together with a natural apprehension , may make sleep a little harder to come by in the last few days , so staying up an extra hour may actually help .
3 Once you have established better eating habits , cut out the empty calorie foods , and achieved your target weight by a slow , careful process of calorie control , you should find staying there a natural follow-up .
4 But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind .
5 ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too .
6 The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day .
7 But she had an idea , from Cara 's remark about sending a card home , that her sister fully expected her to stay away the whole fortnight as planned .
8 They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place
9 Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday .
10 He stayed indoors the whole winter , so Cathy only had me as a companion on her walks .
11 We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight .
12 Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time !
13 He was very interested in Jenna 's accident and stayed quite a long time .
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