Example sentences of "[conj] stay [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 3 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 4 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 5 | ‘ They will arrive at twelve and stay probably for an hour and a half or so . |
| 6 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 7 | The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days . |
| 8 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 9 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 10 | He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while , but it was too cold to linger long . |
| 11 | ‘ We went to Nice and stayed overnight at a hotel . |
| 12 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |
| 13 | Its companions emerged and approached the small fire , but stayed warily at a distance , more afraid of the flame than of the humans who had kindled it , Tallis decided . |