Example sentences of "stay on [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 2 | You could both stay on in your respective jobs . |
| 3 | He has opted for the island county this time qualifying under the residential rule which also applies to captain Mark Harris , who has switched clubs from Menai Bridge to Bangor but stays on for his fourth campaign in charge . |
| 4 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
| 5 | But there was nowhere else for him to go and anyway he had , one night , two years before , made a promise to stay on until his old friend the female golden eagle ‘ went free ’ , which to him really meant until she died . |
| 6 | Both the head and the educational psychologist stressed the positive value of Cedars and the likely problems for Balbinder if he stayed on at his present school , which they told her did not have the expertise to cope with his needs . |
| 7 | Anthony Dryland resisted resigning and stayed on at his spacious Army quarters in Germany after his wife Christine went berserk in her car . |
| 8 | The Smiths , the Kays and the Wyllies were humble men who stayed on in their native county and did not amass great wealth , nevertheless , they are remembered long after most of the supposedly important people of their generations have been forgotten . |