I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hospital stay (= the period someone spends in hospital )
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New surgical techniques mean a hospital stay of less than 48 hours.
a stay of execution (= the official stopping or delay of an execution )
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He was granted a stay of execution by the Supreme Court.
avoid/keep off/stay off a subject (= not talk about it )
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I knew he was trying to avoid the subject of drugs.
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She hoped that Anna would keep off the subject of Luke for the next few hours.
get/keep/stay ahead
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Getting ahead at work is the most important thing to her at the moment.
keep (sb/sth) afloat/stay afloat
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The Treasury borrowed £40 billion, just to stay afloat.
keep (sb/sth) afloat/stay afloat
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Somehow we kept the ship afloat.
keep/stay away from an area
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The police ordered people to stay away from the area.
keep/stay cool
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his ability to keep cool in a crisis
keep/stay in shape
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She’s bought an exercise bike to keep in shape.
keep/stay out of mischief (= not do things that cause trouble etc )
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Can I trust you to stay our of mischief for half an hour?
keep/stay warm (= wear enough clothes not to feel cold )
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Make sure you keep warm!
remain/stay aloof (from sb)
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They worked hard, but tended to stay aloof from the local inhabitants.
remain/stay at a level
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The fees are likely to remain at current levels.
remain/stay/keep calm
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I tried to stay calm and just ignore him.
remain/stay/keep silent
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She kept silent, forcing Buchanan to continue.
remain/stay/stick in your memory (= be remembered for a long time )
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That day will remain in my memory forever.
stand/stay/remain etc on the sidelines
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You can’t stay on the sidelines for ever; it’s time you got involved.
stay alert
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Taking notes is one of the best ways to stay alert in lectures.
stay at/in a hotel
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We stayed in a hotel near the airport.
stay in bed (= not get up early/at the usual time )
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At the weekend it’s really nice to be able to stay in bed.
stay in business (= continue operating and not become bankrupt )
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Some stores are finding it hard to stay in business.
stay in the race
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Forbes has the money to stay in the mayoral race as long as he likes.
stay married
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I cannot stay married to a man I do not love.
stay the night (= sleep at someone's house )
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You're welcome to stay the night if you like.
stay/act within the law (= not do illegal things )
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The security forces must act within the law.
stayed alive
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We stayed alive by eating berries.
stayed home
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We stayed home last night.
staying overnight
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Pam’s staying overnight at my house.
staying power
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a team with staying power
stay/keep close
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We must all stay close.
stay/keep in contact ( also maintain contact formal )
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We’ve stayed in contact since we met on holiday.
stay/keep in touch (= keep writing or talking, even though you do not see each other often )
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Anyway, we must stay in touch.
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I met him when I worked in Madrid, and I’ve kept in touch with him ever since.
stay/keep/remain awake
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I was tired and it was hard to stay awake.
stay/remain/keep solvent
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I don’t know how we managed to remain solvent.
stays fine
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I hope it stays fine for you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Thornton accepted, agreeing to stay around and possibly play a larger role again if things looked up.
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Thomson stayed around for the festivities, as did assorted other friends.
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The armed robber, needless to say, did not stay around to be sued.
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The amino acids from any one meal stay around for about 24 hours.
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Lisa was always his favourite and he seemed favourably impressed that Tony had stayed around .
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Sometimes he stays around , but it's only a matter of convenience when we're working.
away
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If you had £50, perhaps you would stay away for three months.
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If an old abandoned hooch was next to a roadway that is patrolled daily, stay away !
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It stays away for two, three or even four years, it is deemed to be full-grown.
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Last minute, the father relented and went along, but he might as well have stayed away .
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I never ran away , but stayed away.
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Her marriage was in crisis; over the preceding week, the decedent had stayed away from home.
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I suppose I wouldn't really stay away .
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Magic Johnson should stay away from the Lakers.
behind
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The males stay behind , for their showy manes would only disturb the hunt whose technique is stealth.
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The other unit stayed behind to form a second wave.
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He hedged a bit, saying that the shift might take up to 15 years and that a ministry or two might stay behind .
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She had been taken ill at the weekend and had had to stay behind in Liverpool.
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Branagh, who stays behind the camera this time, now works primarily in movies.
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Many men and teenage boys stayed behind to guard their families' possessions.
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The one who will never stay behind , no matter how exhausted he is.
close
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Pyjamas seems afraid of them: he stays close to the wall.
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The trick to that is staying close enough to see their instrument lights.
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It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way, but it must stay close to the outside walls.
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I tend to stay close to people who can tell me things I like knowing.
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Feminist psychologies which work by association, stay close enough to psychology's concerns to be able to contest them.
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That was another good reason to stay close to home and in your own neighborhood-town and ethnic state.
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His daughter stayed close to me to make sure that nobody hurt me.
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They stayed close , hung around to the end and absorbed another painful defeat.
here
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Red, orange, green - I could stay here for ever.
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But I can't stay here , in case he comes to find me.
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Why are you staying here , Walter?
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She stayed here for several days.
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Only humans stay here for the full year.
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A number of sea-faring men had stayed here with their wives over the years.
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Please stay here until I come back.
home
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If there is not a Disco I will stay home and watch television.
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Whichever way we say this, any sensible person knows that the staying home is because of the rain.
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U2's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home - preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead.
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A parent often must stay home from work to care for the child, she said.
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Some policies will also include eventualities like job loss or having to stay home to care for a sick relative.
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Her life ambition was to stay home for ever.
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The National's Boris Godunov was built around Ognovenko; he had to stay home .
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One of the last nights, Amelia begged off going to a party and stayed home , so Toot stayed home too.
in
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I could stay in and get drunk.
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A quick discussion ensues and they decide to stay in so they can finish their penguins and the pumpkin observations.
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In the end I stayed in and got drunk.
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I stay in , play Bach on the earphones and vacuum the broadloom.
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He stayed in , and the recession worsened.
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He stayed in the room for as long as he could bear it, waiting to see if Ray would come round.
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She put in the subs too early; she let them stay in too long.
long
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Human biology could rule out long stays aboard a space station.
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He had to choose it by himself because Agnes didn't stay long .
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No, they hadn't stayed long - a little amused glance at Narouz here.
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And she need not, after all, stay long .
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She flits in and out of people's lives and never stays long enough to allow anyone to get to know her.
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Even if he does come and he won't be able to stay long , even though the division is not marked in writing.
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At the end of his year long stay he was due to return to lectures at Sheffield University.
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It houses long stay elderly patients who will move this year to a new community unit if all goes to plan.
on
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Had she been coming from London straight to Feliburn she could have stayed on the main road all the way.
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Some winter visitors stay on until mid-April.
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Baxter stayed on and Ed stayed in place until another successor for Baxter was found.
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The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school.
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Truitte stayed on , and five months later Horton asked him if he was interested in joining the company.
out
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Alternatively they can stay out at night in an enclosed field.
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He sometimes gets his shoes soiled in trying to stay out of the muck.
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She would stay out here until evening, if it killed her in the process.
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He often cried in the late afternoons, and sometimes I stayed out of the house because of it.
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It's not like you to stay out like that.
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Amelia meanwhile, to avoid being discovered, stayed out of sight in the plane.
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But still, he stayed out there shovelling, confounding the pessimists even though his task was clearly hopeless.
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Moral: Stay out of the war unless it is on home grounds.
overnight
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Continue to beautiful Lake Powell and stay overnight at the Holiday Inn or similar.
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On a Saturday, supporters driving hundreds of miles from east and west Tennessee could stay overnight without missing work.
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I stayed overnight at the Bush Hotel.
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She was to stay overnight in the hospital and was expected to be released Thursday morning, hospital spokesman Brice Peyre said.
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Spend the evening exploring the honeymoon capital of the world, staying overnight at Your Host Motor Inn.
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Guests stay overnight in a Taoist monastery and climb to the peak of Mount Wudang Shan to welcome the sunrise.
there
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This can lock on to a target and stay there .
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My husband and I stayed there for our honeymoon.
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In 1682, he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years.
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The men who came through stayed there , waiting for their ship.
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He stayed there only a short time before moving to Gloucestershire where he has been ever since.
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Why the sea anemone stays there and whether it gains anything from this relationship is not known.
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Once it had moved to Kyoto, the capital stayed there for centuries.
together
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And that is where we stayed together , until we heard the Compline bell.
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A central issue: Is it better for children if unhappy parents split or if they stay together ?
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It's essential for good vision that they stay together , particularly over the central area.
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Psychologists have found that couples who lack moments of jealousy are less likely to stay together than jealous ones.
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The family that e-mails together stays together.
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I also said that I truly wanted the team to stay together .
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The government coalition, provided it stays together , has an advantage in organisation and money.
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Stories about mishaps teach youngsters that families and friends stay together through tough times.
up
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He stays up until the early hours devouring the news wires.
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He just took a leap, held his breath, and stayed up .
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You should have stayed up your own end of town.
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She become passionate about it and would stay up hours past her bedtime to paint.
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Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night.
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Anne began acting worse-was rebellious, stayed up late, slept in the daytime.
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I stayed up late to clear things up, and got up early to do the same thing.
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I hope we stay up there.
where
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If the loose ferrets make contact with the wounded rabbits they become preoccupied, stay where they are and do not resurface.
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Could it be that some of us might like it better if they stayed where they belong?
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Once you research what might be available it may make you unhappier staying where you are.
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No. Stay where you are.
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They simply stayed where they where, circled about their prisoner, their faces implacable, their eyes cold.
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Maybe you should of stayed where you was, Lu.
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You can get about on those leg things of yours; we have to stay where you put us.
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By November, the University had told them they could stay where they were through 1997.
■ NOUN
bed
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They explained that they were poor and that the sick man was rich and could afford to stay in bed without working.
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I would like to stay in bed for ever, curled under the covers, with the lights out, the drapes drawn.
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I may read the papers, or perhaps just stay in bed wondering if there's anything on the doorstep.
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It made it tough to stay in bed until the dorm lights came on at six-thirty.
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What he'd like best is to stay in bed on Father's Day.
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The drawings stayed under the bed .
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I had to stay in bed most of that weekend and it stopped being a treat and started to get really boring.
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When she felt bad, she would go to bed and stay in bed for a day or two at a time.
course
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The player's manager will have no objection to whatever it is that is guiding McCoist staying firmly on course this evening.
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Remember, most dieters fail to stay the course .
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Investors who stay the course would have none of this.
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Perhaps three out of ten who began Jesuit formation stayed the course .
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My son had stayed the course .
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Both sales and profits must climb if the company is to stay on course for success.
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Ya wan na defend yurself, ya stay the course .
friend
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For eight days he lingered in Clifton, staying with friends , until the river cleared and the service resumed.
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The family were surprised to hear that he had written to his father asking if he could bring a friend to stay .
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What does matter is your staying with your friends and your family.
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But she was staying with friends .
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They stayed friends all through the next ten years, and I find that a lot more interesting than a simple affair.
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My best friend just now will not necessarily stay my friend for ever, although it is possible.
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I stay with my friend Allan, a flaky architect I had briefly been infatuated with in 1983.
hospital
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Patients still need to recuperate but do not need to stay in an acute hospital to do so.
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And then to have this decision made that they have to stay in the hospital .
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He stayed in hospital for three-and-a-half weeks, and then spent several more convalescing in the country.
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She was to stay overnight in the hospital and was expected to be released Thursday morning, hospital spokesman Brice Peyre said.
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Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times.
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For two terrible weeks, Susan stayed at the hospital day and night.
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She had a tearful reunion with her parents, Alan and Audrey, who stayed at the hospital overnight.
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He can stay in the hospital till we decide on a safe house.
hotel
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It had been simple to find out which hotels Chris had stayed in.
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Although the hotel we stayed at was very beautiful.
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It is attached to the hotel where the Packers stay the night before their home games.
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He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying .
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There was no tracking down Richter at a hotel -- he was staying at the Soviet Embassy.
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Despite a strong police presence, 100 protesters had gathered on the Grand Canal opposite the hotel where Haider was staying .
house
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Kate had felt she could not stay in that house a moment longer.
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Lately she stays in her house for days on end, goes out only to get food.
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It was hard to stay in the house .
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And now here she is, staying at my house .
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It was only that she couldn't stay in the house while mummy was being so horrible.
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His job is safe if he wants to stay , White House officials said.
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She just wanted to stay in that house .
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Where there's not much money around, a couple is often forced to stay in the same house .
night
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A Mr Crump stayed here last night , a Liverpool merchant.
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Fathers may stay at night , and young siblings may visit as frequently as desired each day.
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Oh, and Caroline, if you're going to the party, make sure you stay the night at Casa Sciorto.
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Employees stayed late every night to drink from the open bar and banter about advertising concepts with their mentor.
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Everyone knows that you get a lower air fare if you stay over a Saturday night .
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Jo asked if Lili would care to stay the night on board the Minerva.
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I might as well stay out all night as come home to you.
place
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Standbridge Hotel E A highly individual place to stay .
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This is possibly why for tourists Na-Bolom is one of the pricier places to stay in all San Cristobal.
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The pool seemed to be a good place to stay .
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The company had weathered intemperate climates, truculent soldiers, and cat-sized rats in one place they stayed along the tour.
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No place to stay for any time, but food every ten miles or fifteen or twenty.
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At least here we had a place to stay as winter approached.
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They got to the place where she was staying , a quiet cul-de-sac.
school
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He even wanted her to stay at school after she was sixteen, but she got round him there.
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High-income earners tend to stay in school longer and start their families later.
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For increasing numbers of pupils this means staying on at school and improving their examination results. 8.
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My dad wanted me to stay in school .
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I got better results than if I'd stayed at school .
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He seems to make few friends and is content to stay at home after school and play Nintendo until bedtime.
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Or you could stay another year at school or college and re-take the subjects you failed.
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Holly will retain his scholarship as long as he stays in school , according to Frieder.
touch
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I have since then stayed in as close touch as seems safe.
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We promise to stay in touch .
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We are a close family and she has always stayed in touch .
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We go skiing, stay in touch .
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Chrissy suggested that they might loosely stay in touch and swap ideas.
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Underneath it all was the desire to stay in touch with Sophie.
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But one of the best ways of staying in touch is personal contact.
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I want you to stay in touch .
while
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So you are going to stay a while on the globe?
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Local restaurant chefs will discuss staying creative while running businesses at noon Sunday.
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I can't stay but a little while .
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I stay for a short while , looking for Philip.
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He stayed outside for a while before being ordered back inside his caravan by the soldiers.
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I stayed for a while , enjoying the unexpected benefits of my nature walk, and then returned home.
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They canbe persuaded to stay for a while by breeding, but in time they are likely to return.
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They both would stay up for a while yet.
■ VERB
allow
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The case was reviewed by the Minister and Mr. Patel was allowed to stay .
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His daily prayer was that he would be allowed to stay here.
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Experience had taught her that allowing him time meant, in effect, allowing him to stay .
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Mrs Place was allowed to stay .
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Relatives should be allowed to stay with the resident throughout this time so that they are not left alone.
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Many asked to be allowed to stay .
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For mercy's sake, persuade your good woman here to allow the lady to stay .
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The situation was not helped by Rigby's parents who originally would not allow her to stay overnight in Leeds.
decide
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If we do well, they might all decide to stay .
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Eleanor decided to stay too, more because she didn't want to miss anything than out of solidarity with her doctors.
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Charman, who decided to stay put, began logging gigs in a tour diary.
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She had put off her summer plans and decided to stay with him.
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Even were I so inclined, she can make her own decisions now, and she has decided to stay .
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He decided he was staying put.
let
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Careta would never let him stay .
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Sometimes, not feeling confident in her judgement that he was playing up, she let him stay .
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He was filled with a heady longing for the office and Mr Chand to accept him; to let him stay .
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She put in the subs too early; she let them stay in too long.
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She agrees to let him stay - of course she will.
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Now let them stay in their territory.
like
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She would have liked to stay longer, but realised that would have been greedy.
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In other words, they like staying busy as much as they like making money.
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They travel very slowly and if they like a place they stay there for a while and take their rest.
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I would like to stay in bed for ever, curled under the covers, with the lights out, the drapes drawn.
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What he'd like best is to stay in bed on Father's Day.
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He would have liked to stay there, but he's excited about moving in another direction.
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I'd like it to stay that way, do you hear?
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They enjoy country life and like to stay at home with friends.
try
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Intercepting radio and telephone traffic from and around the Eastern block, trying to stay one jump ahead of a dangerous enemy.
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He sometimes gets his shoes soiled in trying to stay out of the muck.
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The Lieutenant was desperately trying to stay in his saddle.
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I tried to stay calm as I dressed and got my shoes on.
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Whatever she has or does, I try to stay ahead.
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Red is playing well, and Jody is trying to stay off her back.
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I try to stay very busy.
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I thought you was trying to stay out.
want
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However, sources say the job's more titular than real with Waxman wanting to stay in the Boston area.
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And what about women who want to stay home with their children?
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She just wanted to stay in that house.
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The respect you have for the game makes you want to stay away from it.
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I wanted to stay living in our old place, Mulberry Cottage, the three of us together.
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I want to stay and try to figure out some things.
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I wanted to stay in that cold glass box for ever.
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I wanted to see Marty stay .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be at sb's side/stay by sb's side/not leave sb's side
be/keep/stay etc in touch (with sth)
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But Letitia stayed in touch , and together, sadly as it turned out, they had found family member Number Three.
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EASY-TO-USE Paging is a simple but fast way to keep in touch .
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I want you to stay in touch .
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Lots of traveling dads and moms are now using e-mail to stay in touch .
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One friend, a lawyer, swears by e-mail because it helps her keep in touch with far-flung friends.
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The idea was to hang together, keep in touch with the audience and maybe make a few bucks.
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They had been classmates as undergraduates at City College of New York and had always stayed in touch .
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We may have to be in touch again.
be/keep/stay one step ahead (of sb)
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It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
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Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
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The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
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We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
hang/stay loose
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Down a partly overgrown lane we stop outside a trailer which has a huge panel hanging loose revealing some yellow-green insulation material.
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Now maybe I jus' wan na hang loose .
here to stay
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Are video games a fad, or are they here to stay?
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And Nicam is here to stay.
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Hence the extent to which Conservative criminology is here to stay depends on more than mere changes of political parties.
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Hitters beware: As veteran umpire Jim McKean put it, the high strike is here to stay.
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In other words, the swimsuit issue is here to stay.
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Like it or not, licensed dealers, in one form or another, seem here to stay.
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Managed care is here to stay, experts at the conference agreed Wednesday.
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There are now obvious signs that we are here to stay.
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Without question, the Africanized bees are here to stay.
keep/stay abreast of sth
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Executives keep abreast of events in the company by e-mail.
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Dulles did more than make the customary recommendations that the policies of the colonial powers keep abreast of local political aspirations.
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In this way, hip Benetton stays abreast of the unpredictable storms of fashion.
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Many growers may feel overwhelmed as they struggle to keep abreast of potentially helpful developments.
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Once in their job, industrial production managers must stay abreast of new production technologies and management practices.
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One way to stay abreast of the legal fees is to ask for monthly billings.
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Representative staff will keep abreast of national developments by attending conferences and by visiting other schools piloting such courses.
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The trouble was that the purchasing power of the workers did not keep abreast of what they produced.
keep/stay etc a jump ahead (of sb)
keep/stay/steer clear (of sb/sth)
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Answer Steer clear of these subjects.
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Even if Ranieri had secured a change in the law, however, investors would have stayed clear of mortgage bonds.
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He had stayed clear of the subject of religion since Christmas.
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Pittman advises steering clear of any influence that puts our own happiness first.
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The Profitboss steers clear of such indulgence, for in the end everyone pays dearly for the privilege of the few.
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The starters have learned to steer clear of her.
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Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arouse suspicion.
stick/stay in sb's mind
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But it stuck in my mind .
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I think those types of things stick in children's minds , so I didn't want her there.
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It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind .
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It must have stuck in her mind , that an honest person might act out of character when severely threatened.
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Last year, 7-21, that stays in your mind .
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One incident that has always stuck in my mind was when I dove for my foxhole at the opening mortar round.
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There are, as always with the work of Ralph Gibson, images that stick in the mind .
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Yet the one small doubt stuck in her mind like a burr in tweed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After what she said, I don't think we can stay friends.
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Alice has never stayed in the same job for more than a year.
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Are you staying for a drink, or do you have to go?
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Are you staying to watch the game?
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Are you sure you can't stay a little longer?
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Do you think she'd stay if we offered her a raise?
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Don't go so soon -- can't you stay just a little longer?
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He stayed behind after class to ask the teacher a few questions.
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He stayed with the baby until she fell asleep.
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He stayed with the company for over thirty years.
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How long are you staying?
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I'm coming too. I'm not staying here on my own.
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I've stayed at the same company for seven years, and I'd like to stick around for a while longer.
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I stayed at my brother's house for a couple of weeks.
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I didn't want to stay with Jordan's all my life -- I wanted a real career, one with a future.
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I was having such a good time in Paris that I phoned my mother to say I was staying another week.
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Is it all right if I stay the night?
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It will stay cold for the next few days.
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John only stayed at the party for a couple of hours.
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Let's just stay calm and try to figure out what to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Got one up on Jackson Hill and the other one stay on Lombard Street.
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He often told Lennie to stay away from Curley and his wife.
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However, Lucy managed to convey that she intended to stay for several days, or perhaps for even a week.
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I say it's a trick to persuade him to stay .
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Lobbies were unheated and so if you hung your coat up wet then wet it stayed.
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She is staying on campus for a while longer.
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Some travel agency offices normally closed on Saturdays will stay open if there is a strike.
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The chocolate will stay soft for hours after baking but will eventually harden again into chips.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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Between 1981 and 1986 the average hospital stay for a patient aged 85 and over decreased by 7.7 days.
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He sailed through Alpine in eight weeks, a month less than the average stay .
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In psychiatric hospitals, the countywide average stay has plummeted from 22 days five years ago to 13 days now.
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The average stay is five to six months, but sometimes it may be as much as a year.
brief
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During John's brief stay in Paris, his father remarried.
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After a brief stay in the frontier capital, Smith was back on the Santa Fe Trail, guiding pioneers westward.
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It was a brief stay at Seaton.
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A brief stay at a house provided by the district council ended after just two days when everything he had was stolen.
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After a brief stay in Canton, we arrive in Hong Kong on 31 May.
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And to help time fly during their brief stay , there was a radio to listen to even magazines to read.
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Charles is unlikely to have suffered much in physical or intellectual terms from his enforced brief stay .
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A neurotransmitter has only a brief stay at its receptor site.
long
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The long stay in the corridors must have made him forgetful, he thought.
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By careful timing, which is possible during a longer stay , you can avoid most of the crowds.
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Ten years was the longest reported stay .
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During that long hospital stay , it became painfully clear that I had two choices.
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These are excellent if you are considering a long stay of two or three months.
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As children no longer needed long hospital stays , the hospital opened its door to adults.
overnight
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We arrive in Innsbruck for dinner and an overnight stay .
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On to the Muskoka resort region for an overnight stay at the Highwayman Inn.
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An overnight stay in Fort Lauderdale is complimentary for passengers departing from the West Coast.
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His trips usually involve an overnight stay , and he pays the company rent for this occasional occupation.
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The average charge for an overnight stay in such historic surroundings was £16 for the four of us, including breakfast.
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Yes, if you have to spend any time in hospital as the result of an accident which requires an overnight stay .
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A six-hour delay on an overnight stay ?
prolonged
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Birds have been seen in every month except June and August, and commonly make prolonged stays .
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The other was a still life, part of a series painted during a prolonged stay in Paris.
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A prolonged stay of several weeks was advised.
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He was not about to see the Shah's prolonged stay upset that.
short
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During his short stay in Madeira, he was a great benefactor of the island.
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Gandhi stayed in Champaran seven months, and returned for two shorter stays.
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Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams.
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They promised short stays , more contacts with the outside world and treatment that stressed returning children home whenever possible.
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Two troops deployed nearby to the west, awaiting a short stay at camp.
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I went every day at the same time, in fact, over the period of my short stay .
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Lamm also expects to spend some of his short stay in Silicon Valley chatting with potential donors.
■ NOUN
hospital
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The Doles met, she explained, at the end of his hospital stay for severe war injuries.
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It is usually as effective as surgery in treating bile duct stones and involves a shorter hospital stay .
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During that long hospital stay , it became painfully clear that I had two choices.
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The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.
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There were no walking wounded, no agonized hospital stays , no maimed pilots to mar the scene.
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Although 83 he was still sprightly and his death from pneumonia following a short hospital stay came as a shock.
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As children no longer needed long hospital stays , the hospital opened its door to adults.
hotel
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Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day, 2-night hotel stay .
night
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It must be combined with a 7 night stay at any one of our features Mombasa hotels.
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A week can be split into four-and three-\#night stays .
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On arrival transfer to the Luxor Hilton for a two night stay .
■ VERB
enjoy
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It's an ideal base from which to enjoy your stay .
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I also enjoyed my stay in Patagonia.
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However, even non-golfers will enjoy their stay at this hotel.
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We sincerely hope you enjoy your stay with us, will visit us again, and recommend us to your friends.
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Later, we talked in our beds, like children enjoying an overnight stay at a friend's house.
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He didn't trouble with small-talk, or asking if the visitors were comfortable, or enjoying their stay .
extend
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The aunt refused to extend their stay when she caught Tam in bed with a bottle of sherry.
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On the following day it was announced that the ship would extend its stay in Keelung because of unspecified supply difficulties.
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The Blues wing-back is currently in talks with the club and dearly wants to extend his stay in East Anglia.
grant
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Because this would cause Mr Goodman financial hardship, a High Court judge said that it was wrong to grant a stay .
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The Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs at least be granted stays of deportation until lower courts had adjudicated their cases.
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However, a federal appeals court granted a stay on the order.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a short stay in the hospital
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I met her during my stay in Venice.
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So how was the rest of your stay ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cash was treated for pneumonia during a two-week hospital stay in October 1999.
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In psychiatric hospitals, the countywide average stay has plummeted from 22 days five years ago to 13 days now.
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In short, they have done everything in their power to ensure a comfortable corporate stay in the city.
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The stay at Oxford spoiled me, I guess.
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The four inside stays are now being assembled, two are complete and the other two are well advanced.
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The length of stay and conditions have been cited as key factors behind a recent surge in violence, escapes and riots.
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Their average stay in a corps was only two years.