Example sentences of "to stay [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so fascinating to observe that I was very sorry when the party broke up , and even more so when Margaret did not ask her old pal Richard to stay on for supper with us after the Rolls drove away . |
| 2 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 3 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 4 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 5 | For this purpose it was not necessary for me to stay on at school after I was sixteen and attend university . |
| 6 | A general tradition in a neighbourhood that children leave school as soon as possible affects the decision of individuals to stay on at school beyond the compulsory school leaving age ; and so on . |
| 7 | All children are compelled to attend school and young people are encouraged to stay on at school in order to maximize this process of self-fulfillment . |
| 8 | Now did you want the s did you ever have the chance to stay on at school ? |
| 9 | In 1973 , the CEE was introduced as an experiment to meet the needs of the ‘ new sixth ’ , that is , 17-year-olds who , under the comprehensive system , wanted to stay on at school for another year but not to take A levels . |
| 10 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 11 | Young people who have completed GCSEs at 16 can choose whether to stay on at school or college , or come out into the labour market and , possibly , take an entitlement to YT . |
| 12 | According to the Training and Employment Agency , some 44pc of fifth-formers now choose to stay on at school . |
| 13 | In an attempt to make good the teacher shortage schoolchildren were encouraged to stay on at school to do teacher training by circular No. 1654 in 1947 . |
| 14 | I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing . |
| 15 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |
| 16 | Rose reported in 1953 that 79 per cent of a sample of unemployed older men in Hull knew ‘ that the country was asking people to stay on at work after retiring age ’ and 74 per cent of them thought this a ‘ reasonable thing ’ ( Rose 1953 ) . |
| 17 | With the total elderly population continuing to rise , women face having to stay on at work until 65 under Tory plans to equalise the retirement age . |
| 18 | It concluded that the best graduates in these subjects tended to stay on at university rather than go into industry or teaching . |
| 19 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 20 | A general election was called for May and Chandra Shekhar was asked to stay on as caretaker Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Samuel strongly advised that MacDonald should be persuaded to stay on as head of the existing government or some " reconstituted " Labour Cabinet or , failing these alternatives , of a National government made up of members of the three parties ; the necessary but unpalatable economies affecting the working class could best be imposed by a Labour government . |
| 22 | Dr Cunningham said : ‘ The important thing is for Neil to stay on as leader of the party and build on the gains we have made in this election . ’ |
| 23 | Firstly , the study will look at the effect of earning on decisions to stay on in education , at a time when more young people are postponing their entry into full-time work and when the financing of Higher Education is under discussion . |
| 24 | At the same time , military service had taken its toll in many American Boardrooms : inevitably , far fewer returned than had originally joined up , their ranks thinned by death on active service , by the desire to stay on in uniform and by retirement . |
| 25 | The advance learning unit is open for them to stay on after school and study there as well , and it 's also open for all sorts of activities every night of the week . |
| 26 | She always had to stay in at lunchtime . |
| 27 | Answer : ‘ At least a dustbin 's got rubbish in it ’ ) , teachers try to ‘ encourage ’ you ( ‘ You 'll just have to stay in at break time to do it all again . ’ ) |
| 28 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 29 | They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out . |
| 30 | The temptation to stay alone at home and hear a favourite programme rather than go to a party is after all vividly real . |