Example sentences of "stay on in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job .
2 Now the choice was hers — she could stay on in the cottage for the weekend as planned , or she could cut her losses and head for home .
3 It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks .
4 She wondered if he 'd stay on in the motel business , or move out .
5 She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends .
6 A victim ( and in theory he could be male , although no man has yet , apparently , pursued a sexual harassment claim through the courts ) can leave and complain of unfair constructive dismissal but will often prefer to keep the option of staying on in the job and bringing a sex discrimination claim instead .
7 ‘ Most important , ’ ran the press release , ‘ the cups cover the bosoms fully and stay on in the water ’ — most important .
8 President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 .
9 When grandfather died the farmer had allowed my grandmother and her two sons , still in their teens , to stay on in the cottage because he did n't need a new grieve ; he had an unmarried son in the big farmhouse , ready to take on the job .
10 Old Trung a toughened three-year contract coolie compelled to stay on in the plantation beyond the term because he had no money or clothes to leave , knotted the cord Dong had fetched around the neck of the cadaver with a deftness that betrayed his familiarity with the task .
11 It was clearly impossible for him to stay on in the studio .
12 His son perhaps stayed on in a bungalow there , moving his goods by dinghy .
13 In 1365 the succession dispute in Brittany was solved in an agreement , the Treaty of Guêrande , under which John de Montfort , son of the John de Montfort who had allied with Edward III in 1341 , became duke but agreed to do homage to the King of France , though many Englishmen remained in the ducal household , and some English captains who owed their fortunes to war , such as Robert Knolles , stayed on in the duchy .
14 He received his education at Donaldson 's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh and stayed on in the capacity of pupil-teacher as the only deaf member of staff .
15 Smythson stayed on in the service of the Willoughby family , and was employed by them on administrative and financial business , as well as as a surveyor .
16 After his retirement in 1944 Normand stayed on in the department as officer on special duty for maintaining liaison with military organizations .
17 McCandless stayed on in the U.S.A. as a teacher of the deaf ( deaf teachers not being permitted in Britain ) at the Mississippi School for the Deaf .
18 He stayed on in the room but there was nothing he could do but withdraw .
  Next page