Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] stay [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must stay here for a while , ’ Edward went on . |
| 2 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll stay just for a while longer . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll stay here for a bit . |
| 5 | I 'll stay here for a while . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll stay here for a bit , Jamey , ’ he said to reassure this youngest child , for children get worried if you do n't speak . |
| 7 | But I 'll stay here for a bit longer . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I could stay here for a day or two , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Sometimes she would stay away for a day or two . |
| 10 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 11 | Yer can stay here for a bit . |
| 12 | I am minding the shop so we must stay downstairs for a while . ’ |
| 13 | At this very moment that little scrap 's mother must be in hell , and part of her will stay there for the rest of her life . |
| 14 | It 'll stay there for the rest of your life . |
| 15 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |