Example sentences of "[adv] stay [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again .
2 Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed .
3 The rain is not staying mainly on the Spanish plain … torrents of hailstones beating les fleurs to the ground ! … says that the rivers will be full … it 's an ill-wind etc ! !
4 We 've deliberately stayed away from the official national trails in England , Scotland and Wales .
5 Top teams traditionally stay away from the gruelling west African rally , making it an irresistible attraction for those teams which can not win elsewhere .
6 In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense .
7 Statistics suggest that those whose marriages last beyond this period seem to have learned the secret of how to stay together in a stable relationship .
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