Example sentences of "[pers pn] stay [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Why do we let them stay in that warren ? " cried Silver . |
| 2 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 3 | If I stay in this house with you for another minute I 'm going to go quite mad . ’ |
| 4 | On the first day I made sur I stayed with that man all day . |
| 5 | As I said I stayed with that man all day . |
| 6 | ‘ I stayed in that crater all night . |
| 7 | did you stay in that position or do you erm change ? |
| 8 | Will you stay near this time ? |
| 9 | Are you staying in all day today ? |
| 10 | Be careful if you stay at this level for long . |
| 11 | You should try to find a copyist … wherever you stay for any length of time . |
| 12 | that 's erm , that 's a slip road what you , and then , your next lane you stay in that lane , only use a right and then if you want to overtake you go into right and then back into right |
| 13 | But she stayed on this balcony , her eyes on him , on this shape which fear had reduced to animal idiocy . |
| 14 | And you stayed in that kind of work until you got married , ? |
| 15 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 16 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 17 | In my opinion it would be a very rash collector who banked on him staying at that level . |
| 18 | Not by even one sign had he shown that he wanted her to stay in any capacity at all . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not going to feel in the least reasonable while you 're forcing me to stay in this house , ’ she warned fiercely . |
| 20 | ‘ Why ca n't he stay in this hospital ? |
| 21 | I should have warned you that regularly as clockwork , whenever he stays in this club , he checks if the haddock is finnan , if the skin around the black pudding is made of hog 's intestines and so on . |
| 22 | His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition . |
| 23 | And if he stays behind that door ’ — the mounting gale of voices behind him was lifting him as he spoke , he wanted to jump on the factor , grab his hair and swing him against the door like a battering ram — ‘ we will fire the roof ! and smoke him out ! ’ |
| 24 | It 's quite tightly bound round there , so it stays in this area here . |
| 25 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to stay at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 26 | The post office was started in 1860 ; the first postmaster was Mr Robert Harker and it stayed in this family for 100 years . |
| 27 | But Betteridge said he stayed in all night and watched Inspector Morse and That 's Life with his girlfriend . |
| 28 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |