Example sentences of "stay for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 2 | She had hoped he would stay for a chat with her parents , but he was making it very obvious that that was n't part of his plan . |
| 3 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 4 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 5 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 6 | And then we would get the evangelists staying for a fortnight at a time , holding services every night asking people to come forward and rededicate themselves . |
| 7 | However , staying for a moment with hi-jacking , here we have a specialised form of the Breakthrough Phenomenon , which until the antidote is produced or produces itself , has quite startling pyrotechnic results , but collapses again as the antidote is devised . |
| 8 | Between 1981 and 1986 the average hospital stay for a patient aged 85 and over decreased by 7.7 days . |
| 9 | In the United States average stay for a patient aged 65 + decreased from 13 days in 1967 to 8.8 days in 1986 ( Eisdorfer et al . |
| 10 | I used to come up quite often and stay for a couple of days and just revel in meeting high-spirited people who did n't care about university politics . |
| 11 | Doctors are under great pressure and no longer come around in pony and trap and stay for a round of golf and two glasses of sherry . |
| 12 | When she recovered , she was invited to stay for a while at Thrushcross Grange . |
| 13 | Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed . |
| 14 | She planned to stay for a couple of days in the Arts Club in Edinburgh , as she belonged to a London club that had a reciprocal arrangement . |
| 15 | We were in Bath to stay for a couple of weeks with my parents , in time for Christmas and ‘ New Year 's ’ . |
| 16 | The boy lives with his aunt but his mother , who is estranged from Luke 's father , often has him to stay for a couple of days . |
| 17 | If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ? |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Garscadden quoted COSLA as being concerned about what would happen if someone 's aunt came to stay for a couple of months . |
| 19 | And she 's going to stay for a fortnight with them . |
| 20 | Twice she asked him to stay for a cup of tea , but he refused . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to stay for a cup of tea , then , ’ he said . |
| 22 | and she 'd got er little Zoe and er stayed for a couple of hours , had a cup of tea and you know . |
| 23 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 24 | There they stayed for a generation of misery . |
| 25 | .. Charlie stayed for a bit of a a natter with me . ’ |
| 26 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 27 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 28 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 29 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |