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 . |