Example sentences of "[vb past] stayed at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 2 | I wish I 'd stayed at home to clean the oven after all . |
| 3 | I would rather he 'd stayed at home with us , but it was his choice , and he 's not a child any longer . ’ |
| 4 | She would never have had the kind of success she 's had , with Broadway and so on , if she 'd stayed at home in England waiting to be asked . |
| 5 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 6 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 7 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 8 | Over the centuries , Ayrshire 's loss may have been the world 's gain but one must wonder what the effect would have been if some of the intelligent and ambitious people who left had stayed at home . |
| 9 | FOR six months Sarah Monelle had stayed at home with her cherished baby son . |
| 10 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 11 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 12 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 13 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 14 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 15 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 16 | Mrs Keith had stayed at East Gore with Jim and Jean . |