Example sentences of "to stay [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 2 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 3 | ‘ But you want to stay on for a couple more days ? |
| 4 | Would he care to stay on for a bite to eat ? |
| 5 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 6 | Dennis Skinner is likely to stay on with a reduced vote . |
| 7 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 8 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope to be a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the Government and I am going to stay on as a MP . ’ |
| 10 | The good news is that Don is prepared to stay on as a board member . ’ |
| 11 | President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 . |
| 12 | There was little reason to stay on in an empty house , Belinda decided as she covered and refrigerated the kedgeree after her father had left . |
| 13 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 14 | And if there 's no work and if there 's no means by which people can get themselves you know those sorts of basic things but you know I 'm not gon na si I I could n't say that the whole structure is going to ch change becau but I think erm I hope anyway and I do believe really that er I mean I hope that we 're going to stay together as a support group in some sort of form and Yes and there 's no way that we 're not going to support other causes in the way that we 've been supported . |
| 15 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 16 | Statistics suggest that those whose marriages last beyond this period seem to have learned the secret of how to stay together in a stable relationship . |
| 17 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 18 | She 's not like thirty four weeks and the baby 's only twenty six and she 's got to stay in for a week at Southwood , then come home weekends and go back in . |
| 19 | He was then persuaded to stay only by a last-minute promise of personnel changes at the top , but even senior Communist Party advisers had no idea how high-level these changes had been . |
| 20 | And he could be allowed to stay only by a direct order from the Home Secretary . |
| 21 | ‘ If it 's all the same to you , ’ Ruth said , ‘ I 'd like to stay outside for a bit . |
| 22 | If they 've had to stay indoors for a wet break they 'll want to do something physically very active . |
| 23 | The only disadvantage is having to stay indoors on a lovely day . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was a serious fire and people were told to stay indoors as a precautionary measure . |
| 25 | The Greek government issued a temporary ban on traffic in central Athens and warned people to stay indoors after an unprecedented build-up of air pollution led to hundreds of people falling ill with respiratory and heart problems . |
| 26 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 27 | Last night 's ban comes only 10 days after a similar incident in which Shrewsbury manager John Bond was forced to stay away from an FA Cup tie at his former club , Burnley . |
| 28 | If you want an actor to stay still for a while , you can elect to freeze the path ( Kev 's pause ) , or , alternatively , you can accelerate and decelerate . |
| 29 | Sara could not help smiling back at him , he looked so incongruous surrounded by the children , who did not seem to stay still for a moment ; the whole group bubbled and rippled with continuous movement . |
| 30 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |