Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] stay [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small group was reported to have stayed in the embassy in the hope of avoiding separation from friends or family en route from East Germany . |
| 2 | Rebuilt in the mid-18th Century , it stands on the site of an earlier house in which Charles I is said to have stayed before the Battle of Edgehill . |
| 3 | And I 'm afraid you 're going to have to stay in the room for a short time , while I make a couple of phone calls and certain arrangements . ’ |
| 4 | With more first preference votes as a result of successful equalisation McNarry might have expected to stay in the count longer than Bradford and thus receive votes from the transfers of opponents . |
| 5 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 6 | They were absolutely not a disaster for women , obviously I would have preferred to stay on the shadow cabinet , but we have three women in the shadow cabinet , and we have a number of women in senior positions outside the shadow cabinet . |
| 7 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 8 | We had to win to get into the play-offs and they needed to win to stay in the League . |
| 9 | ‘ I think big clubs will always have to compete to stay at the top and these prices show the way the transfer market has gone . |
| 10 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 11 | I do need to stay on the fairway , though . ’ |
| 12 | If I do have to stay in the cells over Christmas I 'll make sure I ruin your wedding tackle before they take me down . ’ |
| 13 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 14 | But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process . |
| 15 | After being rescued , Troy had decided to stay on the ship and work as a sailor , but he was not happy with this travelling life , and finally returned to England . |
| 16 | For example , there was a chap I knew who was in Simon House and the rules of the house are that you 've got to stay off the drink , and unfortunately he had a slip and went back on it . |
| 17 | He said well you 've got to stay to the end I mean , but do n't stay right to the end , you know sort of |
| 18 | Just as before she had needed to stay inside the cottage , fearful that she would miss Johnny if he should come , now she needed to be away , out there where her world was still turning , and people laughed and played and did ordinary things . |
| 19 | He had gone to stay during the school holidays with the children of a farmer who was one of his father 's clients . |
| 20 | No , I think that we would have liked to have seen more women , I would have liked to have stayed on the Shadow Cabinet , and I would have liked to have seen more women in the Shadow Cabinet , but to say it 's a disaster , and somehow we 've moved away from the path we 've set ourself is simply not the case . |
| 21 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 22 | Both desperately need to win to stay in the promotion hunt . |
| 23 | They 've got to , she 's got to stay on the boat until they 're gon na try and find her somewhere else to sleep |
| 24 | ‘ I have enjoyed it so much I have asked to stay in the DES . |
| 25 | I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me . |
| 26 | A GROUP of so-called ‘ new age ’ travellers have vowed to stay in the Highlands , in spite of what they claim is continual police harassment . |
| 27 | But in recent years some greylag geese have begun to stay over the winter , finding the large re-seeded fields to their liking . |