Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] stay [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unclear last night how many East Berliners planned to stay in the West , where facilities are increasingly being overstretched . |
| 2 | The Englishmen and the Norwegians wanted to stay on the ice all winter . |
| 3 | Warming to his theme , Herbert , who keeps a bad-tempered parrot called Red Cross in his garden , continues : ‘ I remember my parents going to stay with the Duchess of Portland . |
| 4 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
| 5 | Firefighters expect to stay at the scene for at least the rest of the day — the strain of working amoung the debris under which two of their friends died shows only too clear to see . |
| 6 | It will mean fewer patients need stay in the infirmary for operations on cataracts and squints . |
| 7 | It 's through him that the players have stayed at the club . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |
| 9 | Sheila McCarthy , of Grange Road , said many residents wanted to stay in the area . |
| 10 | Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour . |
| 11 | Even so , most of the older nomes preferred to stay in the sheds , or in the cosy gloom under the floorboards . |