Example sentences of "to stay [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went home on the Saturday night of his third week with someone who invited him to stay for Sunday lunch . |
| 2 | That 's why we told Hilary he 'd have to stay for GCE year . |
| 3 | He pledged to stay as opposition leader if his party would have him . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a mistake for me to stay after Friday evening . |
| 5 | We have to stay with product innovation , drive forward our successes , carry on improving and carry on being a better company to work for . |
| 6 | That 's why we want to stay in Hout Bay and most of us are working for them here in Hout Bay ; they should know that . |
| 7 | Paul Jackson , for example , the Director of Programmes for Carlton Television , said a little while ago ‘ those who argue for Current Affairs to stay in peak time are just not accepting things as they are . |
| 8 | What can you say about a club which apparently could not afford to stay in hotel accommodation but had no problem finding 5,000 dollars to slip into a referee 's back pocket ? |
| 9 | If Gloucestershire wants to stay within Government spending limits the council must find a way of saving sixteen million pounds — or risk being charge capped . |
| 10 | Mr MacDougall said the administration had shaved £4.87 million off its initial calculations in order to stay within Government capping limits . |
| 11 | Firstly , I think it 's a vote by the majority of parents to say that they want the school to stay local , to stay within Local Authority control . |
| 12 | She did n't need to stay on Water Gypsy any more . |
| 13 | She was very welcome to stay on Saturday night , Bridget said , although she herself was going to the Oxford Playhouse . |
| 14 | has offered to co-ordinate hospitality for the Coburg girls and any of our regional teams who need to stay on Friday night . |
| 15 | Diagram 1 Starboard bias Plan to stay on starboard track . |
| 16 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 17 | She had invited him to stay at Blemley House because she had heard that he was clever . |
| 18 | Reading manager Mark McGhee , who is with his prodigy in Monte Carlo , insisted yesterday that Lambert is not for sale and would be offered an improved contract to stay at Elm Park . |
| 19 | The girl said she still thinks fondly of her time in England — but could not bear to stay at University College any longer . |
| 20 | Later on , when Lewis and his wife and the baby went to stay at Wyvis Hall , Hilbert 's only comment on his great-nephew 's name was : |
| 21 | Jamie says he wants to stay at Dean Hall . |
| 22 | He had felt he should ask Nahum to stay at Fern Cottage with him , but was relieved when Christian insisted that the gipsy leader 's son stay at Handley Farm for the remainder of his time in Swinbrook . |
| 23 | We want to stay at Acklam Park , ’ he added . |
| 24 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 25 | The Soviets , however , seem happy for families to stay at Star City for the whole 18 months . |
| 26 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |
| 27 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 28 | When Princess Flavia heard that the King was hurt , she refused to stay at Tarlenheim House and rode at once to the Castle of Zenda . |
| 29 | At the end of his first week back , Baldwin went to stay at Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , only a few miles front Fort Belvedere , a bijou residence which justified its martial name only by looking like a toy castle , but which was nonetheless the King 's main base throughout his brief reign . |