Example sentences of "stay [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 3 | They would stay for a few months and go back . |
| 4 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 5 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 6 | But many of the fertilised eggs remain buried deep among the sand grains where they will stay for a month until , once more , high water reaches this part of the beach , stirring the sand , releasing the larvae to swim freely in the sea . |
| 7 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 8 | Perhaps she will stay for a while . ’ |
| 9 | You 'll stay for a meal , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | We think they should be able to get jobs and hope they will stay for a few years at least . |
| 11 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I wo n't stay for a shower , I 'll go for a swim instead . ’ |
| 13 | I thought I 'd stay for a while . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Alex , ’ said the producer , ‘ could you just stay for a quick word ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 17 | But she seemed to fidget him ; he would let her stay for a while and then say , ‘ Run along , duckie , ca n't you see I 'm busy ? ’ |
| 18 | Oh , some people just , you know , I 've a , a friend who 's erm , who was with someone at college and he er , said he was gon na stay for a week , and you know , months later , he was still there . |
| 19 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 20 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 21 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 22 | She had hoped he would stay for a chat with her parents , but he was making it very obvious that that was n't part of his plan . |
| 23 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 24 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 25 | quite keen , well it is n't as if I 'm gon na stay for a year , he 's sort of thinking sort of you know going out there to work and I |
| 26 | She might stay for a a weekend or something , but I mean erm |
| 27 | Well , people come on a day to day basis , like a working environment , right ? er Each individual will stay for a different length of time , it could be weeks , months , even years . |
| 28 | ‘ If everything continues to go well , she will stay for no more than seven days . ’ |
| 29 | He will stay for no woman . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He will stay for no woman … ’ |