Example sentences of "to stay [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
| 2 | I want you to stay for my wedding ! ’ she said strenuously . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you really not want to stay for my wedding ? ’ |
| 4 | I am to stay for your sake . |
| 5 | If you move to the US without a prearranged position , at least ensure that you have a place to stay for your first few months . |
| 6 | as soon as you 've finished just go , you do n't have to stay for your full three hours , nobody 's gon na know |
| 7 | You may have to stay for your , who 's that ? |
| 8 | Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will , and once they were gone , she plunged into work . |
| 9 | All it needs to do therefore is to stay with its arms out in one place , photosynthesize , and avoid being eaten until it has managed to reproduce . |
| 10 | On 15 May Patricia Rose left London to escape the attention of reporters and went to stay with her brother and sister-in-law at Biot , in France . |
| 11 | She regularly went to Venezuela to stay with her aunt Alicia and her grandmother Rosa in El Tigre . |
| 12 | Mary telephoned the therapist 2 months later because she felt unable to decide whether to return to her ex-husband or to stay with her boyfriend . |
| 13 | Since then she had tended to spend more time on her own in the flat and to stay with her parents at weekends . |
| 14 | Liz had continued to live at home with her parents , but she was now thinking about going to stay with her brother and his wife for a few weeks . |
| 15 | She 's having our first baby in a couple of weeks and she 's gone to stay with her mother in York . |
| 16 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 17 | But when there was talk of a reconciliation and her father moving back , she went to stay with her boyfriend in Surrey . |
| 18 | Later she went to stay with her uncle and aunt at Bonsam Hall , which was of course too grand for us to visit . |
| 19 | She was to stay with her sister until Isobel decided definitely whether to remain in Tollemarche or return to England , and occasionally she became a little bored and was glad of Hank 's lively company , though to her annoyance , he treated her as if she were a ten-year-old . |
| 20 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 21 | The little girl decided to stay with her father but asked to make one final phone call , Teesside crown court heard . |
| 22 | Fortunately rather than staying in the main house , she was able to stay with her sister Jane and husband Robert who , as he was a member of the royal Household , enjoyed a grace and favour cottage on the estate . |
| 23 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 24 | Melanie was to stay with her aunt in the shop , that day , to learn the prices of things and where things were kept , once the pots were washed . |
| 25 | She had already left home several times to stay with her boyfriend . |
| 26 | There was only a large crater where the wool shop had stood so Maureen was free to stay with her mother and Anne went to work on Monday . |
| 27 | Among those present were Mr John Raisman the Chairman of the Board of Trustees , Griselda 's husband Mr William Kerr , and their enchanting children three-year-old Robin who shook hands with everyone , and Cordelia who preferred to stay with her father . |
| 28 | " Surely she 's only gone to stay with her family . |
| 29 | Ryan must have assumed that she 'd gone to stay with her parents when he left her . |
| 30 | She had gone to stay with her eldest married daughter , Agnes , in a council house on the outskirts of the city . |