Example sentences of "to stay the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal pathology , individual incompetence , were easy excuses for the inability of many officers to stay the course . |
| 2 | Nigel asked me if I wanted to stay the weekend . |
| 3 | Student Ken Payton , 22 , from New York , said : ‘ I hope to stay the pace and follow it through the night . ’ |
| 4 | After last week 's defeat by Aston Villa , doubts were raised about Rangers ' ability to stay the pace . |
| 5 | But I grabbed something to stay the pangs of hunger on the way down . |
| 6 | It ca n't become a pop show , it has to stay the way it is . |
| 7 | ‘ David was the key — once he decided to stay the others were certain to follow . ’ |
| 8 | Ended up we had to get her and the kids out of the house and get them somewhere to stay the night . |
| 9 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 10 | As on all the other Monaghan Days stretching far back he had come intending to stay the night . |
| 11 | The hut seems the ideal place to stay the night if the storm holds , but I am not sure if I am allowed to : it is full of instructions which are all written in Icelandic . |
| 12 | It 'd be real easy — I 'd just say to myself ‘ Well , I think I 'll just pop over and see Marie today ’ , and five minutes later I 'd be there and we could have tea together , then if I did n't want to stay the night I 'd just fly into the sky again and stay there . |
| 13 | Our little grandson Mark , now two years old , came once a week to stay the night with us to delight us with his charming presence . |
| 14 | He wondered whether Alice Mair would invite Lessingham to stay the night at Martyr 's Cottage or whether he would be driven home later by her or her brother . |
| 15 | After the ceremony , at around one in the morning , Dustin rang his friend , actor Stanley Beck ( who would later appear in John and Mary and Lenny , and co-produce Straight Time ) , telling him he had nowhere to stay the night . |
| 16 | After they were finally discovered to be there , the minister pleaded for them to be allowed to stay the night , and guaranteed they would be at the Children 's Panel Hearing in Kirkwall the next day . |
| 17 | Could you ask me to stay the night here , for one thing ? ’ |
| 18 | Nadine had been invited to stay the night at Deanne 's home and the girls were walking there with Deanne 's mother Sharon and her boyfriend when tragedy struck . |
| 19 | The men were going to stay the night in Llangollen , thirty miles from their destination , and hoped to be with us around ten the next morning . |
| 20 | ‘ We would have had to stay the night at Zagora , anyway . |
| 21 | He 'd arranged with the parish priest to stay the night here . |
| 22 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 23 | But I always try to stay the night there on my way down through France and on the way back again because of the Hotel de la Poste where the Swiss proprietor and his pretty Norman wife provide such a warm welcome and such good food . |
| 24 | The marquis and Amsterdam had gone to Plymouth the day before , intending to stay the night . |
| 25 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 26 | In order to stay the night with Bobby at Hamilton Terrace Marsh would occasionally lie to her parents . |
| 27 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 28 | I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done . |
| 29 | I asked my parents if they would allow me to stay the night , saying that Valeria was alone in the house and I would keep her company . |
| 30 | When she got to her sister 's it was late and she was worn out so she decided to stay the night . |