Example sentences of "stay [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I stay for lunch ? ’ |
| 2 | At last she had managed to persuade Miss Taylor that she could n't possibly stay for lunch , that she and Fen planned to picnic while he worked . |
| 3 | You can stay for lunch . ’ |
| 4 | Why do n't you stay for school lunch instead of sandwiches ? |
| 5 | ‘ You must all stay for supper , ’ you gaily cry ( not wishing to break up the unexpected party ) , and fling open the store cupboard . |
| 6 | He did stay for Christmas ! |
| 7 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 8 | Danny ran to Huw , jumping up and down with excitement , and begging : ‘ You will stay for tea , wo n't you ? |
| 9 | ‘ You 're sure you wo n't stay for tea ? ’ |
| 10 | Tel and I did n't stay for tea . |
| 11 | And then they would all stay for tea or whatever . |
| 12 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 13 | She did not stay for coffee . |
| 14 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose Eleanor can stay for coffee , ’ he muttered at last . |
| 16 | I shall not stay for coffee . |
| 17 | He did n't stay for Ken 's thanks . |
| 18 | O.K. , if I insisted he would stay for dinner with Max tomorrow evening , and could I let him know what I was planning to cook as he would like to start working on the antidote . |
| 19 | Can you stay for dinner ? ’ |
| 20 | There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label . |
| 21 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 22 | He will stay as editor and Lorna Cassie as advertising manager . |
| 23 | Three-quarters of Scotland 's top companies believe the Government has no effective economic policy and the same proportion believe Mr Lamont should not stay as Chancellor , according to a poll by the accountancy firm Pannell Kerr Forster and BBC TV in Scotland . |
| 24 | This is because most male clerks do not stay as clerks for all their working lives . |
| 25 | Botha will almost certainly captain South Africa rather than Jannie Breedt , though Breedt may well stay as No 8 . |
| 26 | Mrs Catherine Eaton said : ‘ I would hope Frank Field can stay as MP . |
| 27 | ‘ You let me stay aboard Water Gypsy — even though you hated the idea . ’ |
| 28 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 29 | Can you stay after school ? |
| 30 | You can stay of course ! |