Example sentences of "[pers pn] stay [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 2 | if I stay in the right place . |
| 3 | If I stay in the same place for too long I get stale . ’ |
| 4 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 5 | To my everlasting surprise I stayed in the main presenter 's chair — even though the programme 's title changed . |
| 6 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 7 | Er did you stay at the same school ? |
| 8 | And did you stay at the same school through primary and secondary ? |
| 9 | Now erm did you stay in the same school or ? |
| 10 | If you stay on the same mark or higher it 's good . |
| 11 | S against T , right , then as long as you stay in the positive half , you are on the right side of the starting line , you have n't gone back and crossed over it . |
| 12 | If you stay in the same place then the whole process of sexual reproduction means that indeed there are uniform populations which are hybridizing with one another and then barriers to other hybridizing population , but not if you move about . |
| 13 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 14 | The distance you want is the perpendicular distance to the line , not the distance you would travel to the line if you stayed on the same heading . |
| 15 | It 's , oh yeah , we stay on the left hand . |
| 16 | The next three or four fixtures will decide whether we stay in the Premier League . ’ |
| 17 | We 've got ta make sure we stay in the first division but |
| 18 | And we stay in the same place ! |
| 19 | We stayed at The Golden Cross , an old coaching-inn in the Cornmarket , and this in itself enchanted me , with its charm of sloping floors and crooked beams . |
| 20 | We stayed in the relaxed beach resort on the east coast of the island called Kamari . |
| 21 | Melges 's answer was to pin up two crew lists , with him staying with the new Kanza . |
| 22 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |
| 23 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 24 | But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters . |
| 25 | Murphy wanted her to stay by the first fire of the autumn and be waiting there with the tea table , as Aunt Emily had always done ; but he knew , after just over two months of Alexandra 's rule , that it was pointless even to look his disapproval . |
| 26 | In classifying people as persistent readers , we have allowed them to switch between different individual papers , provided they stayed with the same paper-type . |
| 27 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 28 | Only a drift of her stayed on the solemn air of the dining room — a drift of Parma violet and a heavy load on Nicandra 's mind . |
| 29 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 30 | He stayed with the first secretary , H. A. R. Philby , who had promised to keep an eye on him . |