Example sentences of "[vb pp] to stay at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen Mother was at first expected to stay at her London home , Clarence House , but is now scheduled to attend . |
| 2 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 3 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 4 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 5 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 6 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 7 | Arrangement can be made to stay at the Hotel at a greatly reduced price . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you decided to stay at the Olive ? ’ |
| 9 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 10 | Thousands of commuters once again decided to stay at home rather than try to beat the rail strike . |
| 11 | However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas . |
| 12 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 13 | He must be pretty bad if she 's got to stay at home . ’ |
| 14 | er to go right the way through to Venice and you 've got to stay at Venice for at least a couple of days so oh and it , er , I think er , you 're talking about two thousand at least just for that four days , you know ? |
| 15 | Professor Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson , of Manchester University , say it is vital for Britain 's economic future that more young people are persuaded to stay at school after 16 . |
| 16 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 17 | We were told to stay at 10,000 feet — unrealistic for our Tri-Pacer — because the terrorists in the mountains might shoot at us . |
| 18 | Cranmer was summoned to the royal presence and , though protesting his incompetence , was told to stay at the house of the Earl of Wiltshire , Anne Boleyn 's father . |
| 19 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 20 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 21 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 22 | More than 300 children , aged seven to 11 were told to stay at home . |
| 23 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 24 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |
| 25 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 26 | He would have preferred to stay at Lyons , but he set out at once in mid-March , and arrived in Rome about the end of April 1098 . |
| 27 | Following discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , Bond has agreed to stay at home rather than attend the match and provoke violent scenes on the terraces . |
| 28 | Diana was invited to stay at their house in Petworth , West Sussex by their son Philip . |
| 29 | We discovered that he had been invited to stay at Wuthering Heights , by Hindley . |
| 30 | Cotton 's nephew William or ‘ son ’ as he called him ( for he had no children ) , was a close friend of Doctor Livingstone , who was brought to stay at Forest House in the 1860s . |