Example sentences of "to stay [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 2 | Avril found out the very next evening when Peter drove her to her daughter 's house to stay for a few days . |
| 3 | In some homes it is possible to stay for a few days or a week at a time either occasionally or on a regular basis . |
| 4 | ‘ I then wrote to Gwen , inviting myself to stay for a few weeks . |
| 5 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 6 | In general even if the price of a holiday goes up extortionately , the number of people going overseas tends to stay about the same . |
| 7 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I try not to stay with the same methods . |
| 9 | Fit-again keeper Tommy Wright and midfield influence Paul Bracewell are unlikely to be in the starting 11 , with Keegan sure to stay with the same side . |
| 10 | With a mortgage , you have to run very fast to stay in the same place — like the Red queen . |
| 11 | You pedal harder to stay in the same place . ’ |
| 12 | I had decided not to stay in the same hotel as any of the groups of owners , actors , racegoers or crew , and asked Nell if she knew of anywhere else . |
| 13 | I am also often told that it is not good for a curate 's career to stay in the same area or parish ! |
| 14 | For it to be plausible , continual adaptation must be necessary for the maintenance of the life history , just as the Red Queen had to keep running to stay in the same place . |
| 15 | Where there 's not much money around , a couple is often forced to stay in the same house . |
| 16 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 17 | Although Jessamy still felt a little sorry for Eleanor , she did n't want to stay in the same room as her . |
| 18 | To move in such landscape was survival : to stay in the same place suicide . |
| 19 | So furious was she , in fact , that she felt it wiser not to stay in the same room with him . |
| 20 | Could n't he bear to stay in the same room ? |
| 21 | Permanent inhabitants include many kinds of protozoa ( single-celled animals ) and a great many multi-celled animals , many of which undergo a daily vertical migration , from deeper to surface waters , effectively to stay within the same level of illumination as the light varies . |