Example sentences of "stay [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 2 | Why , for example , did Molla Iwad ( Molla Ivaz ) , who was eventually to rise to become Rumeli kazasker , stay on at the Sahn at one point in his career , twice refusing appointments to higher medreses ( those of Murad II in Bursa and of Bayezid II in Edirne ) before accepting an appointment to the Ayasofya medrese ? |
| 3 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 4 | Head of sixth : This year they 're mostly Indians , that is the largest ethnic group of people who stay on to the sixth form , followed by the white children , then the Pakistani and West Indian in very small numbers . |
| 5 | Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation . |
| 6 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 7 | ‘ Most important , ’ ran the press release , ‘ the cups cover the bosoms fully and stay on in the water ’ — most important . |
| 8 | And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ? |
| 9 | Male activists are out every night unless they stay in for the wife 's one night out . |
| 10 | All of the characters are strong and stay basically in the same tone except for Estella who undergoes a very sudden character change in the revised ending . |
| 11 | In this type of grouping , the females stay together at the centre of society , with the males on the periphery . |
| 12 | Humans are not the only animals to display the habit known as pair-bonding — the practice whereby parents stay together throughout the time that their offspring require to attain adulthood . |
| 13 | said stay down for a minute . |
| 14 | The findings indicated that , on average , computer systems crash nine times per year , per company , and that those systems stay down for an average of four hours . |
| 15 | Officers are visiting 17 New Age Travellers sites with a simple message — stay away from a 5-mile exclusion zone around Castlemorton Common over this Bank Holiday weekend or you 're likely to be arrested . |
| 16 | The Queen leads from the front as Royals stay away from a day at the races |
| 17 | ‘ And stay away from the beck . |
| 18 | ‘ Now you got to take care , child , stay away from the boys . |
| 19 | Top teams traditionally stay away from the gruelling west African rally , making it an irresistible attraction for those teams which can not win elsewhere . |
| 20 | ( And stay away from the luscious Caesar salad — the calories lurking in the Parmesan , egg yolk , oil and garlic croutons are alarming . ) |
| 21 | That 's why I try and stay away from the throttle in the middle of the corner when you 've got max pressure on the tyres . |
| 22 | ‘ Stay away from the rocks , Carol , ’ Greta Ross told me . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , stay away from the fireplace , like I 've always told you . |
| 24 | A Canadian friend who visited Junieh a few years ago said that it was an excellent and interesting place for a cruising yacht to go : cheap , with pleasant , welcoming people and without danger , provided you stay away from the trouble spots . |
| 25 | Stay away from the telephone for an hour , between half past nine and half past ten this evening . |
| 26 | Although the threat of having to meet Rohan had been removed , the wedding was still going to be an ordeal for her , and she 'd been sorely tempted to plead sudden illness and stay away from the actual ceremony and celebrations . |
| 27 | Then , over his shoulder , he added : ‘ And stay away from the club . |
| 28 | stay away from the building |
| 29 | Stay away from the ! |
| 30 | The chiming keyboards of Mick Talbot stay enigmatically in the background , drowned in the authentic atmosphere of smoke and mild intoxication . |