Example sentences of "to stay [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that they were all as shit-scared as I was and were content to stay where they were . |
| 2 | The darned things never seemed to stay where they were meant to . |
| 3 | A lot of people are inquiring about remortgages but often when they find out what exactly is involved they are happy to stay where they are . |
| 4 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 5 | Dusk came quickly and they decided to stay where they were and camp for the night . |
| 6 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 7 | Unemployed labourers were aware of their legal right to stay where they were , even though the developing industrial centres in the North and in the Midlands were desperately in need of labour . |
| 8 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 9 | The hostages had to stay where they were , and we had to play the game . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone is to stay where they are . ’ |
| 11 | People ought to stay where they were put . |
| 12 | A convention in one room , a wedding reception in another , and neither wanting to stay where they were put . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I expect Thorkel and Hlodver and Odalric to stay where they are and look after my interests until I tell them otherwise . ’ |
| 14 | Everything was so sudden that we did n't know what to do , whether to stay where we were or to run . |
| 15 | We decided to stay where we were while Johnny and Gavin , who were both experienced cyclists , set off in search of the minibus . |
| 16 | That 's why we tend to stay where we are . |
| 17 | Just aim to stay where you are until the tough period is over and you can recommence your weight loss regime . |
| 18 | ‘ I am sure , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ that we 'll be able to get you moved into a much higher form later on , but for the moment the Headmistress wishes you to stay where you are . ’ |
| 19 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 20 | You can get about on those leg things of yours ; we have to stay where you put us . |
| 21 | It has a double effect : it reduces the fear in the cat itself and enables it to stay where it is , rather than move off into the distance ; it also prevents any counter-staring by the cat , which would spell defiance and possibly provoke further hostility . |
| 22 | It 's the lower class that tends to stay where it is because it does n't get the representation . |
| 23 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 24 | History ought to stay where it belongs , she thought : in the past . |
| 25 | If a bath needed moving he was only too willing ; if it was to stay where it was , no problem either . |
| 26 | The Empire likes people to stay where it puts them . |
| 27 | I decided to stay where I was at the moment until things quietened down . |
| 28 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 29 | All I wanted once was to stay where I was . |
| 30 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |