Example sentences of "[verb] stay [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 2 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | He was then persuaded to stay only by a last-minute promise of personnel changes at the top , but even senior Communist Party advisers had no idea how high-level these changes had been . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a serious fire and people were told to stay indoors as a precautionary measure . |
| 5 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 6 | If they 've had to stay indoors for a wet break they 'll want to do something physically very active . |
| 7 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 8 | If , rather than face unemployment , you would at least be prepared to consider staying on with a reduced salary or a lower level of seniority , you should make that clear . |
| 9 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 10 | The only disadvantage is having to stay indoors on a lovely day . ’ |
| 11 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 12 | Throughout the tournament the popular Murray admitted to feeling enormous tension as he battled to stay ahead of a top-class field , which included eight members of the European Ryder Cup team . |
| 13 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 14 | And he could be allowed to stay only by a direct order from the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | Remembering where Tweed had stayed once during a desperate operation in the past . |
| 16 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |