Example sentences of "to stay at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 2 | That 's why it was surprising that Jenny had gone to stay at Moorlake in these last months . |
| 3 | She had invited him to stay at Blemley House because she had heard that he was clever . |
| 4 | Reading manager Mark McGhee , who is with his prodigy in Monte Carlo , insisted yesterday that Lambert is not for sale and would be offered an improved contract to stay at Elm Park . |
| 5 | Beasant wants to stay at top |
| 6 | Donald 's son came to stay at weekends sometimes . |
| 7 | ACET ca n't replace family and friends but can provide the practical care and support to enable people with HIV/AIDS related illnesses to stay at home . |
| 8 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 9 | Help to stay at home : |
| 10 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 11 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 12 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 13 | For those who wish to stay at home , or who can not obtain a move , Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need to improve housing conditions . |
| 14 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 15 | You also notice that , because this plot development requires the couple to have been childless , there was clearly no previous necessity for either of them to stay at home . |
| 16 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 17 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 18 | I wanted to go with her to the train , but she told me to stay at home otherwise I 'd get lost on the way back . |
| 19 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 20 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 21 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 22 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 23 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 24 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
| 25 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 26 | She irritably suppressed the knowledge that Mr Tranter , the editor , allowed her to stay at home on Saturday mornings , ostensibly to work . |
| 27 | It was ( and is ) impossible for many other travellers to stay at home too . |
| 28 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 29 | Many of those women who choose to stay at home and bring up their children are made to feel guilty by outsiders ( often in the media ) implying that they ‘ should ’ be working . |
| 30 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |