Example sentences of "stay [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Had to stay , stay away from the windows .
2 One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic .
3 So if you are a die-hard player who ca n't stay away from the golf course during the winter months , why not try a golfing holiday on the Continent ?
4 He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice .
5 Often they would quarrel and he would stay away from the house for a while ; but he was never able to stay away for long .
6 ‘ By the way , could you stay away from the marsh at the top of the ten-acre field . ’
7 She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday .
8 Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc .
9 ‘ You ca n't stay away from the wedding !
10 The " white-knuckle " sufferer who stays away from the substance or behaviour of addiction by grim determination , sometimes aided and abetted by non-addictive , anti-euphoriant or aversion-therapy drugs or processes is a pitiful sight .
11 ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle .
12 He had stayed away from the whisky .
13 We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor !
14 Officers are visiting 17 New Age Travellers sites with a simple message — stay away from a 5-mile exclusion zone around Castlemorton Common over this Bank Holiday weekend or you 're likely to be arrested .
15 The Queen leads from the front as Royals stay away from a day at the races
16 Stay away from the telephone for an hour , between half past nine and half past ten this evening .
17 stay away from the building
18 ‘ And stay away from the beck .
19 ‘ Now you got to take care , child , stay away from the boys .
20 Meanwhile , stay away from the fireplace , like I 've always told you .
21 That 's why I try and stay away from the throttle in the middle of the corner when you 've got max pressure on the tyres .
22 Then , over his shoulder , he added : ‘ And stay away from the club .
23 Stay away from the rocks , Carol , ’ Greta Ross told me .
24 A Canadian friend who visited Junieh a few years ago said that it was an excellent and interesting place for a cruising yacht to go : cheap , with pleasant , welcoming people and without danger , provided you stay away from the trouble spots .
25 ‘ Father , the night you stay back from the club will be the night the shops are on fire , both of them . ’
26 Keep a good lookout and stay back from the line a little so that you do n't get into problems with people on starboard tack , then look for a gap to tack into .
27 It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire !
28 The club believe they lost £10-15,000 in gate money for last Saturday 's match against Liverpool because West Midlands Police issued a press statement warning supporters who did not have tickets to stay away from the Highfield Road ground .
29 It is a defeat for the regime to have to warn an entire city population to stay away from the Tiananmen Square
30 The magistrates , bailing Raper until March 30 for probation officer 's reports , warned him to stay away from the Archdeacon .
  Next page