Example sentences of "stay put [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will be staying put with the President 's mortal remains , and you can be sure I will not be in the shadow of Mrs Aquino , using the death for personal and political reasons . ’ |
| 2 | Sex causes complications , and in this interminable recession , just staying put on the payroll is quite difficult enough . |
| 3 | Posh Porky seemed to be torn between going along with her old man to the synagogue and staying put at the shop , where she 'd sit by the window and start scoffing cream buns the moment he was out of sight . |
| 4 | The methods described so far are suitable for popular waters where it is a case of choosing a swim and staying put for the whole session , which means you must attract fish into your swim and induce them to feed . |
| 5 | or stay put in the icy brine . |
| 6 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 7 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 8 | But he stayed put by the bar . |