Example sentences of "stay [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 2 | Why , for example , did Molla Iwad ( Molla Ivaz ) , who was eventually to rise to become Rumeli kazasker , stay on at the Sahn at one point in his career , twice refusing appointments to higher medreses ( those of Murad II in Bursa and of Bayezid II in Edirne ) before accepting an appointment to the Ayasofya medrese ? |
| 3 | Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation . |
| 4 | ‘ Most important , ’ ran the press release , ‘ the cups cover the bosoms fully and stay on in the water ’ — most important . |
| 5 | Male activists are out every night unless they stay in for the wife 's one night out . |
| 6 | In this type of grouping , the females stay together at the centre of society , with the males on the periphery . |
| 7 | Humans are not the only animals to display the habit known as pair-bonding — the practice whereby parents stay together throughout the time that their offspring require to attain adulthood . |
| 8 | said stay down for a minute . |
| 9 | The findings indicated that , on average , computer systems crash nine times per year , per company , and that those systems stay down for an average of four hours . |
| 10 | Officers are visiting 17 New Age Travellers sites with a simple message — stay away from a 5-mile exclusion zone around Castlemorton Common over this Bank Holiday weekend or you 're likely to be arrested . |
| 11 | The Queen leads from the front as Royals stay away from a day at the races |
| 12 | Stay away from the telephone for an hour , between half past nine and half past ten this evening . |
| 13 | stay away from the building |
| 14 | ‘ And stay away from the beck . |
| 15 | ‘ Now you got to take care , child , stay away from the boys . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , stay away from the fireplace , like I 've always told you . |
| 17 | That 's why I try and stay away from the throttle in the middle of the corner when you 've got max pressure on the tyres . |
| 18 | Then , over his shoulder , he added : ‘ And stay away from the club . |
| 19 | ‘ Stay away from the rocks , Carol , ’ Greta Ross told me . |
| 20 | A Canadian friend who visited Junieh a few years ago said that it was an excellent and interesting place for a cruising yacht to go : cheap , with pleasant , welcoming people and without danger , provided you stay away from the trouble spots . |
| 21 | The chiming keyboards of Mick Talbot stay enigmatically in the background , drowned in the authentic atmosphere of smoke and mild intoxication . |
| 22 | ‘ Stay just inside the door while I explore … ’ |
| 23 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 24 | Having asked the question , he offered no personal answer : ‘ Like jesting Pilate , I stay not for an answer : though the question awaits our collective resolution ’ . |
| 25 | The estimated savings are based on the claimant being 22 weeks off the register , but again some stay off for a year , and some return much sooner . |
| 26 | It 's a doddle if you stay close to the hedge and keep your eyes open . |
| 27 | They stay close to the sea , scavenging on penguin , cormorant and seal colonies , along tide lines , and in rock pools ( Jones , 1963 ; Stonehouse , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Stay close to the phone for a couple of days . ’ |
| 29 | And stay like in the couples bar . |
| 30 | In part two : The Great Escape : Oxford stay up by the skin of their teeth . |