Example sentences of "[vb mod] stay [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that you should stay in a firm that stoops to fraud or illegality ; but idealistic notions have to face an economic assessment . |
| 2 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |
| 3 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 4 | You 'll stay for a meal , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | But , in the meantime , he 'll stay in a sort of . |
| 6 | He says that a person could stay at a hotel with his own doctor and nurse cheaper than that . |
| 7 | Of course you could stay in an hotel ! |
| 8 | I thought I 'd stay for a while . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , I remember used to stay on an island . |
| 10 | And he used to stay in a hostel in , |
| 11 | Oh oh yes they yes they would stay under a road bridge too because you would see the er er if you would look a a bridge and they would say oh there 's a tramp there 's a place there if you could tell me and you would see the rocks put up and where the bed was always above water level oh yes . |
| 12 | She had hoped he would stay for a chat with her parents , but he was making it very obvious that that was n't part of his plan . |
| 13 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 14 | At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’ |
| 15 | Guests would stay in a cottage in the garden . |
| 16 | ‘ I will stay as a governess with the Robinson family , ’ Anne said sadly . |
| 17 | Perhaps she will stay for a while . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 19 | But many of the fertilised eggs remain buried deep among the sand grains where they will stay for a month until , once more , high water reaches this part of the beach , stirring the sand , releasing the larvae to swim freely in the sea . |
| 20 | The other two children will stay at a family centre as part of her assessment . |
| 21 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |