Example sentences of "stay [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubt you 'll even stay for the dancing . ’ |
| 2 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 3 | I hope it will bring a few people along to the network who will stay for the music afterwards . ’ |
| 4 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 5 | Ruth planned to find somewhere in Dudley where she and her grandfather might stay for the night . |
| 6 | Ayrton Senna was in the lead and that 's where he would stay for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 7 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 8 | You can stay for the time being . |
| 9 | I hope you will stay for the barbecue . |
| 10 | So they will neither go to your children nor to be sold , but they will stay for the future … ? |
| 11 | ‘ No , we wo n't stay for the party , ’ Guido was saying , as Ronni fought to shake the feeling from her . |
| 12 | So you did n't stay for the evening ? |
| 13 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 14 | She would need to buy something for Terry — even if she did n't stay for the wedding . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 16 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 17 | The former Spitfire pilot , who won the Distinguished Flying Cross , just wo n't stay off the road , a court heard . |
| 18 | I have never once heard a staff member say that would n't stay after the school day for some activity or other . |
| 19 | The congregation can stay after the service to continue the discussion . |
| 20 | By 2020 , China could be emitting up to three times the US total ( although its per capita figure will probably stay below the US ) . |
| 21 | Marketing director Tony Gledhill says the company will not be using an ad agency to launch the range but will stay below the line with recently appointed PR agency Smart Communications . |
| 22 | The Duchess of York settled into a nine-bedroom farmhouse on the estate where she will stay throughout the holiday . |
| 23 | ‘ And how long did it stay behind the wall ? ’ |
| 24 | Porterfield paid tribute to his developing side : ‘ It 's only December and there is a lot of football to play yet but we can stay near the top . |
| 25 | You can stay near the beach , in the countryside in the character historic properties of Tuscany and Umbria , or even in the cities of Venice and Florence . |
| 26 | A contact orderwhich requires the person with whom the child lives , or is to live , to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order or for that person and the child to otherwise have contact with each other . |
| 27 | But the Conservatives argue that the Council should stay with the Government 's cash limits . |
| 28 | You only feel the surge and turbulence of the ocean in about the top metre , so you can stay with the life and sunshine with ease . |
| 29 | The memory that would always stay with the Lerskys was of the tiny Lieserl waddling along the platform . |
| 30 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |