Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] to stay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 2 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 3 | The North Sea Oil bonanza — money that should have been spent encouraging and harnessing the potential of young people to live in a new , modern world — was instead squandered paying them to stay on the dole and to stay away from schools , colleges and training . |
| 4 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 5 | It does not matter what says here today , you have a job at this moment in time , I 'm asking them to stay in the pits and fight for the right to work those pits . |