Example sentences of "to stay [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACET ca n't replace family and friends but can provide the practical care and support to enable people with HIV/AIDS related illnesses to stay at home . |
| 2 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 3 | Help to stay at home : |
| 4 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 5 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 6 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 7 | For those who wish to stay at home , or who can not obtain a move , Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need to improve housing conditions . |
| 8 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 9 | You also notice that , because this plot development requires the couple to have been childless , there was clearly no previous necessity for either of them to stay at home . |
| 10 | Isolation is seen from the outside as a result of women not speaking English , or of their being forced to stay at home for cultural reasons . |
| 11 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 12 | I wanted to go with her to the train , but she told me to stay at home otherwise I 'd get lost on the way back . |
| 13 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 14 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 15 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 16 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 17 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 18 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
| 19 | Like Ulysses , I had , by my standards then , made un beau voyage , but I did not think it would result in my being content to stay at home thereafter . |
| 20 | She irritably suppressed the knowledge that Mr Tranter , the editor , allowed her to stay at home on Saturday mornings , ostensibly to work . |
| 21 | It was ( and is ) impossible for many other travellers to stay at home too . |
| 22 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 23 | Many of those women who choose to stay at home and bring up their children are made to feel guilty by outsiders ( often in the media ) implying that they ‘ should ’ be working . |
| 24 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 25 | He explained that Anne needed support too and that if he wanted to stay at home most of the time , then he must consider her welfare and go to the centre sometimes as well . |
| 26 | When children are unable to find work they may have no option but to stay at home . |
| 27 | This particular Saturday I 'd been allowed — for the first time — to stay at home alone . |
| 28 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 29 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 30 | He 's past his peak as a tennis player , so it 's his turn to stay at home . |