Example sentences of "might stay [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know so much , ’ Fabia replied , and went on to tell her sister about her car problems and how , because she might not be able to get home by Wednesday , she 'd told their mother that because Mariánské Láznë was so beautiful she might stay on longer — and that their mother had assumed Cara might fly to America from Czechoslovakia . |
| 2 | Auntie Lou knew we might stay to tea but it 's getting late now and she 'll start to worry . ’ |
| 3 | I told them I might stay with Kit and Teresa … ’ |
| 4 | Was that the first hint , no more than a joke really , that they might stay at Wyvis Hall , that they might live there ? |
| 5 | THE BEST sit-com ever made actually began a year earlier , written by estranged Hancock creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson , but in '64 an episode was actually postponed on Election Day at the request of opposition leader Harold Wilson , who feared Labour voters might stay at home ( See ? |
| 6 | But this time , Antonia 's mother had rung to ask whether Antonia might stay at the Jardines ' . |
| 7 | Ruth planned to find somewhere in Dudley where she and her grandfather might stay for the night . |
| 8 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 9 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 10 | She might stay for a a weekend or something , but I mean erm |
| 11 | When she disingenuously called her mother and asked if she might stay in England to take a degree , her parents congratulated themselves on having saved their daughter . |
| 12 | ‘ If there was somewhere you might stay in the meanwhile , I may shortly be in a position to help you . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps she might stay in Southwark and agree to go for a walk , or at least sit and share a goblet of wine with him and gossip about the past . |
| 14 | I thought she might stay until next week . |