Example sentences of "[pron] stay [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I can find someone to stay with the girls , for a night or two if it 's necessary , I 'm going to go . |
| 2 | At first I stayed with the others . |
| 3 | The varnish held tiny , solid pieces of silver metal which stayed on the pieces of tissue Philippa was using and scratched the next nail she treated . |
| 4 | Do you stay with the horses all the while u in the flight ? |
| 5 | JOHN Major was yesterday branded a ‘ spectator Prime Minister ’ who stays on the sidelines while Britain takes a pasting . |
| 6 | You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day . |
| 7 | A map can be very useful if there is one available , or a conducted tour of the land , but it is your responsibility to ensure that you stay within the limits of the concessions that have been made to you . |
| 8 | Steve Whitton , who played the final 18 minutes in Saturday 's FA Premier League 4–3 defeat at Southampton , is named together with defender Eddie Youds who stayed on the subs bench . |
| 9 | One has only to read the letter of Robert Scott Macfie , a middle-aged company chairman with degrees from Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities , who stayed in the ranks as a senior NCO , when he wrote of an action on the Somme in 1916 : ‘ The want of preparation , the vague orders , the ignorance of the objective and geography , the absurd haste and in general , the horrid bungling were scandalous . ’ |
| 10 | Thus she stayed on the back-benches , retained her roots in Merseyside , and fought for the people and ideals which she had always supported . |
| 11 | She never went on holidays anywhere , she stayed with the nuns all the time . |
| 12 | For some time she stayed with the Kleibers . |
| 13 | Instead , she stayed near the doors , holding on as best she could to an upright rail , the bag with the dress in it clutched in her other hand . |
| 14 | She stayed in the Ladies ' room for a long time , amongst girls fainting , and weeping and grieving over laddered stockings , and when she emerged he had disappeared . |
| 15 | She stayed in the shadows , and Gabriel went on to Weatherbury . |
| 16 | Comments included ‘ Scott helped me with the photocopying ’ , ‘ Can we stay in the groups because I really like working with Bobby ? ’ and ‘ Why could n't we stay all day ? ’ |
| 17 | An afternoon 's drive brought us to Christchurch , where we stayed with the Bakers . |
| 18 | We then drove inland , through the Buller Gorge and Murchison and up to St. Arnaud , a village at the head of Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park , where we stayed at the backpackers ' , the only accommodation available . |
| 19 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 20 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
| 21 | We stayed in the huts , which are run by DOC ( Department of Conservation ) ; you buy tickets in advance , but they do n't guarantee you anything ; however , if the hut is full , there are usually extra mattresses available . |
| 22 | But there are only limited facilites for them stay in the children 's ward to be near their daughter . |
| 23 | Will they stay in the jobs ? |
| 24 | Cos I was bit worried about er him staying under the covers all night . |
| 25 | She did not know of the vow he had made that if it ever did come he would make sure she was the first to go , even if it meant him staying in the Cages . |
| 26 | They live in nests below ground where they are safe from sand lizards and insectivorous birds and that is where they stay during the mornings . |
| 27 | What the ovules do is they stay in the grasses and they wait for the pollens to arrive . |
| 28 | At night , when we slept in taverns , they stayed in the outhouses , fending for themselves like two animals . |
| 29 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 30 | It does not matter what says here today , you have a job at this moment in time , I 'm asking them to stay in the pits and fight for the right to work those pits . |