Example sentences of "[pers pn] stay [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I stay out of the muddy pools of politics . |
| 3 | I stayed on as an orderly , up there . |
| 4 | For two or three days I stayed there in a commercial travellers ’ hotel . |
| 5 | Taking a break from country hideaways , we hunted for a retreat in central London for those of you staying over for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition treat ( see page 150 ) . |
| 6 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 7 | We stay overnight at the delightful Savoy Hotel close to the Tivoli Gardens and the City Hall . |
| 8 | Two weeks ago in Yugoslavia , we stayed overnight in a private house offering bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 9 | They stay close to the male-oriented tradition , particularly at higher academic levels , and assume , like Henlé at the beginning of the chapter , that their gender need not affect their career . |
| 10 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 11 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 12 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 13 | As Bf109s were reported they stayed well above the other squadron , but to no avail . |
| 14 | They stayed mainly in the front room where there were rugs on a black-flagged floor that made it wonderfully cool to come into from the burning heat of the headland . |
| 15 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 16 | ‘ Does he want me to stay here in an English prison ? ’ |
| 17 | He stays somewhere in the middle portion of the gunsight , but the pipper refuses to stay on him . |
| 18 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 19 | It stayed there in the shallow water for a while . |
| 20 | He stayed on as a civilian minister , preaching to both prisoners and garrison at Windsor , having in September 1647 became a fellow of Eton College . |
| 21 | He stayed overnight at the nearby Penta Hotel . |
| 22 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 23 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 24 | From Pforta in 1864 he went to the University of Bonn to read classical philology and theology , but he stayed only for a single year . |