Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] stay at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm moving out , I 'm going to go stay at me granny 's . |
| 3 | We 've been to Penthurst , I think we 're going to have to stay at home . |
| 4 | Fluka is continuing to work to stay at the forefront of knowledge in these areas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I think big clubs will always have to compete to stay at the top and these prices show the way the transfer market has gone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 10 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Suzanne , I could call myself Suzanne : it was the name of one of the actresses Dad had brought to stay at our house for a week because there were bedbugs at her lodgings . |
| 14 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 15 | That 's why it was surprising that Jenny had gone to stay at Moorlake in these last months . |
| 16 | Over the centuries , Ayrshire 's loss may have been the world 's gain but one must wonder what the effect would have been if some of the intelligent and ambitious people who left had stayed at home . |
| 17 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 18 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 19 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He must be pretty bad if she 's got to stay at home . ’ |
| 24 | I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me . |