Example sentences of "stay [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
| 3 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 4 | Tom Eisner and Stephen Nowicki , of Cornell University , noticed that the spiders that use stabilimenta build long-lived webs that can stay up for several days . |
| 5 | ‘ Jerry here will snore his afternoon beer-snore , so I am jus ’ gon na have to put a pillow over my head and pray to God the roof stays on for another winter . ’ |
| 6 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 7 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 8 | Normally , I say , I do n't see the point of staying in for this . |
| 9 | At festivals she went back home and often stayed away for several days , despite the knowledge that her late return would meet with an endless round of angry curses . |
| 10 | I do n't think she 'll be staying off for any great length of time , with the open day coming up I think she 'll be |
| 11 | And if you can be bothered staying up for this , it will take you through to 6am tomorrow . |
| 12 | ‘ Three weeks at least , and he must stay here for that time . |
| 13 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't mind having us stay on for another day ? ’ |
| 15 | Couples stay together for any number of reasons other than happiness : questions of money , children , accommodation or idleness , depression , habit , fears above all : fear of what the neighbours will say , fear of loss of status — fear of going without sex being chief amongst them . |
| 16 | Many people with HIV stay well for many years . |
| 17 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 18 | I did n't stay there for that . |
| 19 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 20 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 21 | RNAS non-rigid airships , able to stay aloft for many hours and send down reports by wireless , did important work on patrol and convoy escort , many times directing British destroyers into contact with the enemy 's U-boats . |
| 22 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |
| 23 | The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career . |
| 24 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |
| 25 | Maybe when he really got roughed up or stayed out for more than just a few days , Manuel would think about talking things over with the vet , but for now , well , ‘ what 's the hurry , man ? ! ’ |
| 26 | She stayed here for several days . |
| 27 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 28 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 29 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 30 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |