Example sentences of "and stay [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 2 | It 's like the little one said last , she said , can we come and stay here for the weekend you know , and stay up in Aunty Bonnie 's room , they call upstairs , and Margaret 's face she said , well er , my god she 's got some good stuff up there you know , furniture |
| 3 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 4 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whenever the so-called yield gap ( long minus short rates ) goes negative , and stays so for longer than two business quarters , past experience suggests that the banks get badly bruised . |
| 7 | ‘ They will arrive at twelve and stay probably for an hour and a half or so . |
| 8 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 9 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 10 | In nature these fish only come together to reproduce , and stay together for as long as is necessary to raise young . |
| 11 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 12 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 13 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Just the three of us , my parents and me , would go down to Hury and stay there for two or three weeks , or until the work was done . |
| 16 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 17 | The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days . |
| 18 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 19 | I 'd go to Tenerife and stay there for ever . |
| 20 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 21 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 22 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 23 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In 1682 , he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years . |
| 26 | He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while , but it was too cold to linger long . |
| 27 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 28 | He went out immediately , and stayed out for the rest of the week-end . |
| 29 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 30 | Screen debut — Sue joined Nationwide in 1972 , and stayed there for 12 years |