Example sentences of "stay [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could n't I stay down a bit longer , please ? ’ |
| 2 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 3 | ‘ Staying on a bit , you see , to help Mr Kennedy here . ’ |
| 4 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 5 | Research also shows that many youngsters in residential care have experienced difficulties with schooling ; for example , over half of all boys in residential care have stayed down a class at least once . |
| 6 | Choosing the right hotel for your holiday is a most important decision and it needs careful consideration even if you are staying only a few days . |
| 7 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
| 8 | Not valid for guests staying over a Friday or Saturday night . |
| 9 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 10 | Sometimes Mother Francis and Miss Pine from the dress shop would take her on an outing to Dublin , but she had never stayed away a night . |
| 11 | From these diaries we know that Minton made between two and four visits to ‘ Marshalls ’ every year up until 1954 , staying usually a couple of nights and returning to London with sheaves of drawings . |
| 12 | If you are aware that you do not feel tired , try staying up a little later — it has to be better than lying there wondering why you ca n't get to sleep . |
| 13 | Once you have established better eating habits , cut out the empty calorie foods , and achieved your target weight by a slow , careful process of calorie control , you should find staying there a natural follow-up . |
| 14 | Bella had stayed there a bit , though , along with her ghastly cronies . |
| 15 | Book 14 days ahead and stay over a Saturday night . |
| 16 | ‘ If you stay here a bit longer , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ and if you ride schooling satisfactorily , I do n't see why you should n't eventually have a mount in an amateur race , if you put your mind to it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Stay here a moment and I will try to persuade her to see you — For what it 's worth , you have my blessing , but the decision is hers , of course . ’ |
| 18 | Arriving at Verdun in May , he found the unit he was relieving had lost forty per cent of its effectives ; ‘ If you stay here a month , which is normal , ’ they warned him , ‘ you will lose half of yours too . ’ |
| 19 | I stay there a bit watching a telly programme with this man doing stuff . |
| 20 | I was so angry with them all that I could not stay there a moment longer , and rushed out into the darkness . |
| 21 | He goes down to his estate and does n't stay there a moment , we call in at Luxor and he does n't want to go ashore . |
| 22 | But Ramsay , concerned at this display of Dunbar 's attitude , decided that he ought to stay on a little longer at Berwick , in Seton 's support . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I 've decided to stay on a bit to settle him . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too . |
| 25 | I had planned to stay only a few days in the Bahamas . |
| 26 | Of course there are some who 'd like the floods to stay just a little longer . |
| 27 | I may have to stay here a while yet . |
| 28 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 29 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 30 | They stayed thus a few , pulsing moments . |