Example sentences of "[vb past] stay [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ? |
| 2 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 3 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 4 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 5 | He started staying late in the office , until 10.00 pm. or later pretending that he was contacting clients . |
| 6 | Protective measures included staying indoors during the passage of the radiation cloud ; the removal of the outer leaves and washing of vegetables , and the washing and peeling of fresh fruit ; the ban by Western European countries on the importation of fresh food from areas of Eastern Europe within 1000 km of Chernobyl ; the restriction in consumption of fresh milk and free-range eggs ; the removal of cattle and sheep from open pasture or a ban on their sale ( for example , 2.5 million sheep in parts of north Wales were prohibited temporarily from being moved or slaughtered ; Kerr et al. , 1989 ) ; the taking of prophylactic potassium iodide tablets to saturate the thyroid with iodine so as to minimize the amount of radioactive iodine being taken in ( this measure was adopted most extensively in Poland ) ; the advice not to drink fresh rainwater ; and the warning to the public about possible contamination during outdoor activity . |
| 7 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 8 | Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year . |
| 9 | Sailing in a pleasant six to eight knots breeze , Peters went the right way on the first beat and managed to stay ahead throughout the race . |
| 10 | I planned to stay there for the summer , and then learn how to be a better actress . |
| 11 | But again she smiled and she shook her head , saying that she preferred to stay here for a while and … just think about things . |
| 12 | The reason was that the company was privately owned by the Jacobs family , which preferred to stay out of the limelight , and just got on with running the business . |
| 13 | He had stayed away from the whisky . |
| 14 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
| 15 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 16 | Sand had drifted into the hallway on the ground floor where a one-eyed watchman , who remembered the names of all the English officers who had stayed there during the war , lived beneath the stairs . |
| 17 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 18 | Mrs Hobbs had stayed behind in the hotel at Ouerzzazate because of the heat ; Richard and Flora because there was to be a celebration for the King of the Belgians and Flora wanted to see the women dancing . |
| 19 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 20 | Tatum had stayed out of the spotlight to bring up their three children Kevin , six , Sean , five and one-year-old Emily . |
| 21 | said stay down for a minute . |
| 22 | Change was unstoppable and they had to stay ahead of the game . |
| 23 | He had to stay there for a year . |
| 24 | We had to stay there for the winter , however , because the ship needed repairs and the captain was ill . |
| 25 | ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’ |
| 26 | The pilot was winched to safety after Saturday 's crash , but the Paramount Studios staff had to stay overnight in the crater . |
| 27 | James volunteered to stay on until the end of the season , and he remains in charge for tonight 's visit to Cross Keys , but Newport are opting for a complete change . |
| 28 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |