Example sentences of "stay there [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before Christmas the family went to Versailles ( 4 ) , staying there for two weeks . |
| 2 | Mr MacKay phoned last night , just after I got in , to say that he and Kirsty were in Edinburgh and that they 'd be staying there until further notice . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose most of your friends must have stayed there at one time or another , ’ she said casually . |
| 4 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 5 | Stay there for five nights for £125 ( includes welcome glass of sherry and refreshment tray , full English breakfast and 3-course dinner ) . |
| 6 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 7 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 8 | If approved , the building would stay there for two years and then could be moved to another site . |
| 9 | Leaving strict instructions to Joanne to stay there at all costs and to both of them under no account to let anyone in , he hurried to the Cortina and set off for Fleet Street . |
| 10 | She is advised to stay there for five days but insists on going back with the band . |
| 11 | In 1682 , he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years . |
| 12 | And er I stayed there at that school until nineteen hundred and twelve . |
| 13 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 14 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 15 | In the event he stayed there for six years , immersing himself in the special atmosphere of rural Ireland which he found greatly sympathetic . |
| 16 | We stayed there for eight years . |
| 17 | We stayed there for five days — hoping to strike it rich , but had to be content with a car full of cuddly toys ! |
| 18 | I stayed there for five years and was still drinking . |
| 19 | I stayed there for five weeks and after another operation was pronounced ‘ partially sighted ’ enough to be registered as blind . |
| 20 | He went back into hospital and stayed there for five weeks . |
| 21 | Screen debut — Sue joined Nationwide in 1972 , and stayed there for 12 years |
| 22 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 23 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 24 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 25 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 26 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |
| 27 | She stayed there for three years and lost track of her sister during that time . |
| 28 | I stayed there for three days , until the snow began to melt , dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof . |
| 29 | He claimed his reservation at the Hotel Gul Bejaze , and stayed there for three weeks . |