Example sentences of "[verb] stay [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 2 | DC Curnow has stayed at the house to keep an eye on Glynn . ’ |
| 3 | A final instalment could be paid when the candidate starts work , or even a year later , if that candidate has stayed with the firm and/or performed well . |
| 4 | Trevor Clemmett , recently retired from the Stoddard Templeton sales force , has stayed within the group as agent for Cambridge , Norfolk , Suffolk and Bedfordshire . |
| 5 | Mr Dinkins has stayed in the headlines by pandering to Jewish sensibilities , and by removing from his campaign a volunteer who once read an antisemitic poem on the radio and praised it . |
| 6 | This decision divided the independent types from the gregarious ; some thoroughly enjoyed staying at the hostel for years : |
| 7 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 8 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 9 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 10 | However , Mr Lamont wants to stay at the Treasury to oversee the long-awaited economic upturn . |
| 11 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 12 | It could be a good indicator for the Deep South where Bush must make an impact if he wants to stay in the race . |
| 13 | If he wants to stay in the race he may have no alternative but to abandon his original proposal and announce a rival offer on improved terms . |
| 14 | They would like to keep in touch with each other and with their older sister who wants to stay in the children 's home . |
| 15 | Everton offered better personal terms but hit man Harford settled on Chelsea because he and his family want to stay in the South . |
| 16 | If you want to stay in the village on a low income there is nowhere to rent or buy . |
| 17 | Fuel is needed if you want to stay in the air because the Epical engines consume fuel at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | ‘ I like the freedom of being able to decide , tonight for example , whether I want to stay in the flat or whether I want to go down to Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | and if you ca n't stay in the east , you want to stay in the east of the city ? |
| 20 | ‘ That 's so , but it should n't be too much trouble for you if you really want to stay in the area . ’ |
| 21 | We want to stay in the area as we both like walking , especially in the Dales , ’ said Audrey . |
| 22 | Police believe she will need to stay at the hospital for at least another week . |
| 23 | I do need to stay on the fairway , though . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do we really need to stay for the rest ? ’ he asked her as they sipped coffee in the tiny foyer , ‘ I mean , it 's not like there 's any mystery about it . |
| 25 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 26 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 27 | Wendy ( played by Maggie Smith plus wrinkly make-up ) has to stay in the Wendy house , while grown-up Peter forgets all about his kidnapped daughter , and concentrates instead on the more important business of bonding with his kidnapped son . |
| 28 | Firefighters expect to stay at the scene for at least the rest of the day — the strain of working amoung the debris under which two of their friends died shows only too clear to see . |
| 29 | ‘ I expect to stay in the competition — Derry are favourites but Cup football all about shocks , ’ he warns . |
| 30 | I 'd stayed with the Puseys several times , and knew my way about the flat . |