Example sentences of "stay [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
2 | And even Rebecca can stay in for about twenty , twenty five minutes . |
3 | " We ca n't stay in for ever , Stephen . |
4 | You have n't stayed in for about two months ’ , which is true really . |
5 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
6 | The first person soon flew gracefully to the bottom of the hill , staying up for over a minute . |
7 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |
8 | Kenny was always football mad and he could n't stay out for long . |
9 | ‘ I think you would have got up and walked out , but I wanted to stay on for ever . |
10 | There 's too much quality at the club for us to stay down for long . |
11 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |