Example sentences of "stay there [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 2 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 3 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 8 | She 's expected to stay there for a few more days , as a precautionary measure . |
| 9 | Go there sometimes about four o'clock give them a feed out and then we used to I used to stay there in a small shelter there . |
| 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 . |
| 13 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
| 14 | Henry and I reached London in early October and stayed there for a few months . |
| 15 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 16 | For two or three days I stayed there in a commercial travellers ’ hotel . |