Example sentences of "stay [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
| 3 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 4 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 5 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 6 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |
| 8 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 9 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 10 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 11 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |
| 12 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |
| 13 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 14 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |