Example sentences of "to stay at [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 2 | The school will be closed for up to a week , and pupils will have to stay at home while temporary buildings are put up on the site . |
| 3 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 4 | ‘ Not only are people starting to stay at home but the next danger is that there is so much football that viewers will start saying , ‘ Do I really want to watch this ? ’ ’ |
| 5 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 6 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
| 7 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 8 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 9 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 10 | Many of those women who choose to stay at home and bring up their children are made to feel guilty by outsiders ( often in the media ) implying that they ‘ should ’ be working . |
| 11 | I 'll have to give up work to stay at home and look after him . ’ |
| 12 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 13 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 14 | So perhaps the moral for itinerant artists is to stay at home and work with what you know . |
| 15 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 16 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 17 | Some had very young children and ( like many mothers of young babies ) felt they ought to stay at home and care for them . |
| 18 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes I think I should offer to stay at home and look after the wee fellow myself . ’ |
| 20 | And erm , my wife who 's a teacher had erm a very devastating experience just after I retired so it was erm , it was as well that I retired when I did because I was then able to stay at home and er |
| 21 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 22 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 23 | He wanted her to stay at home and look after the children as much as she did ; he wanted her to be mainly interested in them . |
| 24 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ This summer I decided to stay at home and present a jazz/big band summer course , similar to the programme at Appel Farm , having seen the progress made by the pupils in America . ’ |
| 26 | The others , he paid to stay at home and practise . |
| 27 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 28 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll have to stay at home till the baby 's born , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | And I never went to hospital because me cousin was a nurse who 'd er you know got married and so she er proffered to nurse me which she did and er the then er health people in allowed me to stay at home because of this you see and I was at home and er that was in nineteen sixteen . |