Example sentences of "[noun] stay [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A call I should like , ’ said Dorothy , with some emphasis , ‘ but Ray seems to be inviting himself and Kathleen to stay here for a night or two . ’ |
| 2 | Ottaviani stayed away for a fortnight . |
| 3 | When they split up , Tree stayed away for a year , but reemerged to send Bailey a telegram when he married Marie Helvin . |
| 4 | If you want an actor to stay still for a while , you can elect to freeze the path ( Kev 's pause ) , or , alternatively , you can accelerate and decelerate . |
| 5 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 6 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 7 | The implications of the Government staying out of a union when they had decided , on the basis of convergence , to form one , are serious and potentially disastrous . |
| 8 | The Queen leads from the front as Royals stay away from a day at the races |
| 9 | President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 . |
| 10 | The findings indicated that , on average , computer systems crash nine times per year , per company , and that those systems stay down for an average of four hours . |
| 11 | After we finished recording , Elizabeth stayed on for a drink , which was a bonus . |
| 12 | The Bishop of London stayed abroad for a while , and then discreetly returned and was found to be in office again , and so effectively that no one troubled to make an issue of it . |
| 13 | In Bridget 's case , her subsequent boyfriend stayed around for a year or so until she and her family moved house . |