Example sentences of "stay [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 2 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 3 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 4 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 5 | If they 've had to stay indoors for a wet break they 'll want to do something physically very active . |
| 6 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 8 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 9 | From Pforta in 1864 he went to the University of Bonn to read classical philology and theology , but he stayed only for a single year . |
| 10 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 11 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 12 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |