Example sentences of "stay [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 4 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 7 | Ayrton Senna was in the lead and that 's where he would stay for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 8 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 9 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 10 | ‘ I will stay as a governess with the Robinson family , ’ Anne said sadly . |
| 11 | Marketing director Tony Gledhill says the company will not be using an ad agency to launch the range but will stay below the line with recently appointed PR agency Smart Communications . |
| 12 | She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 13 | She also informed the Queen she will share Christmas with the Royal Family on her own terms , and will stay with the Duchess of York in a farmhouse two miles from Sandringham . |
| 14 | He beamed and in a while went on , ‘ Except for the engineers , the same crew will stay with the train to Vancouver ! ’ |
| 15 | ( j ) Insurance arrangements Condition 5.1 of the new standard conditions of sale states that the seller is not under a duty to maintain an insurance policy but that the risk in the property does stay with the seller until completion . |
| 16 | Do you stay with the baby at all times when he or she is in the bath ? |
| 17 | And then we would get the evangelists staying for a fortnight at a time , holding services every night asking people to come forward and rededicate themselves . |
| 18 | However , staying for a moment with hi-jacking , here we have a specialised form of the Breakthrough Phenomenon , which until the antidote is produced or produces itself , has quite startling pyrotechnic results , but collapses again as the antidote is devised . |
| 19 | Should she join the group of young vets who had qualified with her two years ago or should she go straight back to her godmother 's house , where she was staying for the duration of this annual veterinary congress ? |
| 20 | The success of the wine evening on the Friday of the October play , was a pleasant surprise to us all with approximately forty people staying after the performance for a glass of wine , a look round the set and backstage . |
| 21 | As for the question of how the game develops in the wider , European context , that , like domestic reconstruction , is something which stays outwith the control of club managers , ’ Smith said . |
| 22 | Wordsworth had stayed near the castle in 1794 . |
| 23 | They both married , with Madge going to live in Cotherstone , just about the nearest village to us , and Violet staying near the bottom of the dale . |
| 24 | He had stayed with the couple until 4pm . |
| 25 | Total membership fluctuated widely around 5,000 and it is clear that many members only stayed with the Party for a short time . |
| 26 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 27 | Each puppy stays with a volunteer for a year before finishing its training with qualified experts . |
| 28 | This will only occur if the client stays with the experience of anxiety and does not avoid the situation . |
| 29 | Each Falcon stays with the team for a 3-year tour . |
| 30 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |