Example sentences of "stay [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they would all stay for tea or whatever . |
| 2 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 3 | He will stay as editor and Lorna Cassie as advertising manager . |
| 4 | Clearly much would depend on whether Knott could stay with Greig but , after nightwatchman Underwood went , Knott and Snow both followed quickly , all dismissed by Daniel inside four overs . |
| 5 | I 'll stay with daddy and we go and do |
| 6 | I told them I might stay with Kit and Teresa … ’ |
| 7 | I 'd rather stay with mother and become a real old maid . |
| 8 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Elinor , ‘ shall Maisie stay with Mummy and do her cello practice while Mummy helps her ? ’ |
| 9 | She 'd smell the pipe and the sherry in the lounge and know she could go to sleep , because the Guests would be staying for supper and cards . |
| 10 | just for fun , you know but I 'm not a believer in using your fists , you ought to be using your brain to teach with but there were no there are no sanctions , if you say you must stay behind after school , you have to send a letter home and half the parents will write back and say my son or daughter is not staying after school and that is that ! |
| 11 | She stays in hospital and , within a few hours ( usually between four and six ) she has a blood loss , like a heavy period , which expels the fertilised egg and the uterus lining . |
| 12 | On Saturday we had an option of staying in camp and being lazy , reading or whatever , or paddling across the lake and climbing a 2 ½ mile mountain where we could climb a Ranger tower to see a magnificent view of the entire area . |
| 13 | If the discount applied to the lire were only 1 per cent as suggested above , then clearly it would be possible to gain over all by earning an extra 2 per cent on the lire deposit and accept that this would be reduced by 1 per cent as the cost of forward cover , making a 1 per cent gain overall in comparison with staying in sterling and importantly be fully hedged . |
| 14 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 15 | But staying in control and knowing when to stop is the key . |
| 16 | One journalist who persisted on the point was referred to playfully as ‘ a Chartist or a Luddite ’ by one press officer , who added that there was also the argument that 600 Group should worry about staying in business and not about unemployment . |
| 17 | If charges are intended to raise money , it seems odd not to impose them for staying in hospital or visiting a GP . |
| 18 | But wherever the king was , in one of his palaces or castles , or staying in monastery or cathedral close , or under canvas , space had to be found in which his chancellor and chaplains could do their writing , celebrate mass and maintain the offices of the royal chapel , and preserve the royal collection of relics with due honour and security . |
| 19 | ‘ Frankly I do n't see any point in staying till morning and subjecting myself to yet another evening of arguments . ’ |
| 20 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 21 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 22 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 23 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 24 | We hear about the sensitive New Age man who stays at home and changes nappies — but , actually , I do n't think these men are any more satisfying to women than any other male role model for the past 2,000 years . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ One of the couples is dividing the babysitting so that she stays at home and he goes out to do the babysitting . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , but he stays at home and never sees anybody , Mr Holmes ! ’ answered Helen Stoner . |
| 27 | Her and her old man stays at home and has a fortnight together . |
| 28 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 29 | His other was on holiday , though he and his mother were not going away anywhere , in spite of what the doctor had advised , but staying at home and ‘ going out for days ’ . |
| 30 | She resisted all temptations to give in to homesickness : she had been given the choice between staying at home and starting a new life , and having chosen the latter she was determined to enjoy every waking minute to the full . |