Example sentences of "stay there [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Just think of how many people will walk past and subconsciously absorb your band 's name on a sticker which is on a high street lamp post , even if it only stays there for a couple of days .
2 Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week .
3 The shares were six times subscribed and opened at 193p , staying there for a second or two before going decisively through 200p ; at the year end they stood at 218p , a rise of 70% on the issue price , and were valued on a historic price/earnings multiple of 30.8 ( and yield of 1.4% ) .
4 so I 'm thinking of staying there for a while
5 He came out of the clinic on 19 March having stayed there for a week longer than he had anticipated , and was once again forced to rest .
6 Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull .
7 In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years .
8 The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days .
9 The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while .
10 Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away .
11 They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week .
12 The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory .
13 He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time .
14 ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray .
15 I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’
16 ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away .
17 He had to stay there for a year .
18 We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley .
19 She 's expected to stay there for a few more days , as a precautionary measure .
20 So , but we were able to stay there for a time .
21 erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about .
22 Go there sometimes about four o'clock give them a feed out and then we used to I used to stay there in a small shelter there .
23 I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new .
24 They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door .
25 Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks .
26 A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement .
27 Henry and I reached London in early October and stayed there for a few months .
28 She stayed there for a long time .
29 He stayed there for a long time .
30 The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance .
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