Example sentences of "stay [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 2 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 3 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 4 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 5 | For Scottish students staying on for a sixth year , a CSYS course ( if available ) , will provide an excellent introduction to the kind of study undertaken at university . |
| 6 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 7 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 8 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 9 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 10 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 11 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 12 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 13 | The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios . |
| 14 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |