Example sentences of "stayed [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we finished recording , Elizabeth stayed on for a drink , which was a bonus . |
| 2 | He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt . |
| 3 | We stayed in for a week |
| 4 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 5 | When they split up , Tree stayed away for a year , but reemerged to send Bailey a telegram when he married Marie Helvin . |
| 6 | Ottaviani stayed away for a fortnight . |
| 7 | He stayed outside for a while before being ordered back inside his caravan by the soldiers . |
| 8 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 9 | In Bridget 's case , her subsequent boyfriend stayed around for a year or so until she and her family moved house . |
| 10 | He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while , but it was too cold to linger long . |
| 11 | The Bishop of London stayed abroad for a while , and then discreetly returned and was found to be in office again , and so effectively that no one troubled to make an issue of it . |
| 12 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |
| 13 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 14 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |