Example sentences of "stay [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Father would leave , but he stays on and stays on out of fear of what will happen to you . |
| 2 | He stays down here at night and he wo n't go if Joy went up to bed he wo n't go with her . |
| 3 | It was an unusually quiet night , and Jack had been called in earlier and had stayed not out of necessity but because , as he said , if he went home he would only be called out again . |
| 4 | Keith stays up late at night . |
| 5 | Everybody stays out late to party . |
| 6 | when I , I was staying out late at night , I was going against my mother , every word she said it was wrong you know I wanted to do my own thing and |
| 7 | She would stay out here until evening , if it killed her in the process . |
| 8 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 9 | Often , dogs that run off and stay just out of distance can be discouraged from this habit when the owner hides . |
| 10 | So I stay there just in case she wakes up . |
| 11 | But I 'm not prepared to stay on here under sufferance , knowing that we 'd have to go in the end . |
| 12 | I am a British citizen but the Home Office do n't want me to stay on here in spite of that . |
| 13 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |
| 14 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 15 | ( iii ) stayed up late at night talking to someone who is under the influence of drugs . |