Example sentences of "stay [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
2 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
3 | ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term . |
4 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
5 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
6 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
7 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
8 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
9 | After Hercule died , it was suggested that Isabelle should stay on for a while — assist with the children . |
10 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
11 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
12 | I very much hope that both you and your husband will stay on for the wedding . |
13 | It was suggested that the plaster should stay on for between four and six weeks after which he might like to think of building up its strength . |
14 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
15 | Did you stay on for As ? |
16 | Yes because in the summer I mean you , some time in the , in this next term would be the ideal thing really because that , if she can stay on for the summer term |
17 | Hopefully this time the bolts will stay in for good , as chopping and replacing them ( something which now seems an annual event ) is causing untold damage to this superb pitch . |
18 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
19 | " We ca n't stay in for ever , Stephen . |
20 | And even Rebecca can stay in for about twenty , twenty five minutes . |
21 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
22 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
23 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
24 | Mr Patten stays on for the time being as party chairman while he and Mr Major consider what should happen . |
25 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
26 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
27 | He has opted for the island county this time qualifying under the residential rule which also applies to captain Mark Harris , who has switched clubs from Menai Bridge to Bangor but stays on for his fourth campaign in charge . |
28 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
29 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
30 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |