Example sentences of "[be] stay [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 2 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 3 | Jack will be staying on in a consultative position until early next year to help his successor through the opening months of his term . |
| 4 | One of the battles my friends and I have had since coming to Rhodesia has been to stay out of the little box into which some people would like to pop us . |
| 5 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |
| 6 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 7 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |