Example sentences of "[vb mod] stay [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 2 | It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way , but it must stay close to the outside walls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 5 | If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass . |
| 6 | Go there sometimes about four o'clock give them a feed out and then we used to I used to stay there in a small shelter there . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall stay here with the real Dorian Gray , ’ he said sadly to himself . |
| 8 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | Our guests will stay either in the original hotel or the modern gastehaus which is about 100 yards away . |
| 11 | At any gathering of the faithful , he will stay up until the small hours debating ideas with all and sundry , pulling people with different backgrounds into the same conversation . |
| 12 | All finalists will stay overnight at the luxurious Langham Hilton Hotel , 1c Portland Place , London W1N 3AA ( 071–636 1000 ) . |