Example sentences of "stay on [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 2 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 3 | Fletcher , one of New Zealand 's biggest companies , said that everything was going to plan and that the UK Paper management team , including chairman Tom Wilding , will be staying on to run the company . |
| 4 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 5 | Freeth stayed on to become the first lifeguard too , and when he died during an influenza epidemic at the age of thirty-five it was said that he had exhausted himself rescuing swimmers . |
| 6 | One of them immediately returned home , never to set foot in the tropics again — while the other , Werner Meyer , the only white doctor left on the island , stayed on to become the director of Makassar 's hospital . |
| 7 | But Briers stayed on to mastermind the Leicester run-chase with a battling 88 . |