Example sentences of "stay [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Male activists are out every night unless they stay in for the wife 's one night out . |
| 2 | said stay down for a minute . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They will arrive at twelve and stay probably for an hour and a half or so . |
| 7 | As I was saying , if the Labour Group would like to leave the chamber we do n't really mind , if they stay out for the voting at the end of this debate which actually contrary |
| 8 | Just stay here for a moment . |
| 9 | ‘ He feels it best that you stay here for the moment . |
| 10 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 11 | The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days . |
| 12 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 13 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 14 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 15 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 16 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 17 | All day excursion , the classic Brighton holiday outing with the afternoon on the Island £15.95 ( under 16 's £8 off ) or stay aboard for the afternoon cruise round Portsmouth Harbour £19.95 ( under 16 's £10 off ) . |