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  • A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
  • While you're in Miami, make sure you stay up to see the sun come up … and try a drink called Miami Vice, which is a mix of daiquiri and pina colada. Insider's guide to music pilgrimages: Hip-hop, dance, disco, electro
  • I used to stay up late with my mom and watch movies.
  • He seems to be the only one taking them seriously, guzzling energy drinks so that he can stay up all night revising. Times, Sunday Times
  • We all get totally hammered on tiny amounts of the local rice wine, and stay up way past our bedtimes at the Hoài Café.
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  • If my parents were away overnight I would stay up all night in the kitchen with the lights and music on really low to stop an intruder.
  • Tell the servant to stay up until I get back, I may be very late.
  • And she still needs crutches to give her torso the stability to stay upright. Times, Sunday Times
  • I might stay up to watch Pacquiao muller Ortiz in five rounds, but Mayweather is not the guy to watch when you're already sleepy, prodigiously talented though he most certainly is. Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
  • She could always sweet-talk Pamela into letting her stay up late.
  • They stay up late, talking and playing cribbage.
  • I will make this radio work even if I have to stay up all night.
  • It is up to the individual to stay upbeat. Times, Sunday Times
  • These sticks are not strong enough to stay up.
  • We switched off for one minute but we can stay up. The Sun
  • If necessary, the airship can stay up there for days to keep out of danger.
  • The kind of place, in fact, where mere mortals who ran out of puff on steep hills and couldn't stay upright on skis would not get much joy.
  • The flag pole wouldn't stay upright.
  • The three of them planned on scaring themselves silly watching horror movies, gouging themselves on junk food, and stay up late dishing gossip.
  • Kyle has the neatest mom - she lets him stay up late on the weekends.
  • Maybe because I have noticed a patten even here at EC --- it is Friday night and whatever slant needs to stay up all weekend in the 'important news', whether postings or polls, will have a finger on the scale to, er, mostly keep front and center the Clinton messages. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview
  • They drink too much, stay up too late, hang around dodgy parts of town and consort with older men.
  • That's the furthest north I've ever been, but I couldn't stay up there too long.
  • My trousers only stay up if I wear a belt.
  • The nights I don't dream about you are the nights I stay up thinking of you.
  • The heel is a double knitted fabric, which I think helps the sock to stay up since it pulls the fabric in at the ankles.
  • Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
  • These sticks are not strong enough to stay up.
  • If necessary, the airship can stay up there for days to keep out of danger.
  • In today's competitive economy, it's essential that medical aestheticians stay up to speed with the latest tools of the trade.
  • They don't stay up all night playing rather loud music, and banging all the house doors.
  • We stay up all night strategizing and getting to know each other.
  • OK, you can stay up till 11, but just this once.
  • Don't stay up so late--you have to go to work tomorrow
  • When I was younger I could stay up all night and not get tired.
  • And - worse - they also indirectly made us stay up most of the night watching Celebrity Big Brother, which put us in a right mardy mood yesterday.
  • Does she need his support to stay upright? Times, Sunday Times
  • I promise not to stay up till 3.25 am to snipe a US bidder off a pair of yellow leather mod boots which are rightfully mine.
  • Are teams whose home strip is red more likely to win/stay up than teams in other colours?
  • They also don't stay up all night playing rather loud music, and banging all the house doors.
  • We switched off for one minute but we can stay up. The Sun
  • As the convoy arrived at the dock, the lorry doors opened and the exhausted, terrified lambs poured out, trying desperately to stay upright and avoid trampling each other.
  • To ensure we stay up, we'll have to bury the hatchet and play to our strengths. Times, Sunday Times
  • Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
  • I will make this radio work even if I have to stay up all night.
  • If you're camping on tarmac, it helps to have a tent that will stay up with a minimum number of pegs
  • As a novice, I am nervous that my ham-handed attempts to help Ajan stay upright will injure her, but Mohammed shows me how and Ajan accepts my help with grace.
  • If we stay put they can stay up there and fry the valley bottom, and us with it.
  • Who will win battle to stay up? Times, Sunday Times
  • I will make this radio work even if I have to stay up all night.
  • I recall a fonder time when all a lad needed to stay up all night was a cup of coffee and trucker pills. Archive 2006-01-01
  • We switched off for one minute but we can stay up. The Sun
  • An Icelandic horse, capable of maintaining significant speed over lava fields and sheet ice, couldn't stay upright on asphalt.
  • The ship juddered, and Grak and his bridge crew hung on to their consoles just to stay upright as the floor lurched and dipped. Star Trek The Next Generation®
  • These sticks are not strong enough to stay up.
  • Greece is hot in the summer, so make like the locals: take long siestas, then stay up late, letting the kids play in the cool of the night while you linger in a taverna.
  • The flag pole wouldn't stay upright.
  • If you plan to stay up on election night, you could sustain yourself in the small hours with freshly baked pizza.
  • Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
  • I'm surprised some of those cheap houses stay up at all.
  • And she still needs crutches to give her torso the stability to stay upright. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the highlight of the event for the lucky youngsters allowed to stay up will be the fireworks display in the town park at 11 pm on Friday night.
  • If you live along Interstate 80 thereabouts, in the northwestern part of the United States, either stay up late or get up early, whichever way you go on that, and you will see a streakier meteor come across in the wee hours of Sunday morning. CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2006
  • I used to stay up late with my mom and watch movies.
  • I used to stay up late with my mom and watch movies.
  • We were very shocked when we arrived I have no idea how he managed to stay up there because the roof was damp and very slippy.
  • As the convoy arrived at the dock, the lorry doors opened and the exhausted, terrified lambs poured out, trying desperately to stay upright and avoid trampling each other.
  • If you plan to stay up on election night, you could sustain yourself in the small hours with freshly baked pizza.
  • They allow him unusual balance, enabling him to overcome gravity and stay upright when he should be prone.
  • The nights I don't dream about you are the nights I stay up thinking of you.
  • Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller 
  • Because the input is actually scraping this page for the urls, as long as the format doesn't change, the pipe should stay up-to-date with this page. SF/F Writers Who Blog
  • Note that I try to stay up to speed on this issue because I am a proponent for reviving animal sacrifice within Norse Paganism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole!
  • I will make this radio work even if I have to stay up all night.
  • I had neither the time nor inclination to explain the science of aerodromics to him; so I told him it stayed up because I made it stay up. Carson of Venus
  • Thus begins another skirmish in Devinsky's long-standing war on the fecklessness of youth, their natural tendency to forget their medication, stay up all night working on a term paper and propel themselves into a hypernormal state by swilling vodka or cough medicine. In the Grip of the Unknown
  • They did not stay upright for long. Times, Sunday Times
  • We stay up all night, giddy and giggly, and talk and plot until our mouths are dry deserts, drier than the fenceless and defenseless north of Kuwait. Excerpt: A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
  • Well, my part in the whole mess was to stay up all night and research so our case was airtight when we went before the district court.
  • Put on your lifejacket, which would help you to stay up if you fall out of the boat.
  • At two-way fingerpost, fork right downhill, 50 yards, footbridge and left, uphill, gap in fence and stay up by fence/wall (ignoring left fork 20 yards after fence gap).
  • I have found that it is really important to make sure that Jacopo gets his normal naps on the flight so he isn't overtired but then push him to stay up until normal bedtime when we land, he loves airport stimulation so that works pretty well. Ondine Cohane: Tokyo Delights
  • Are teams whose home strip is red more likely to win/stay up than teams in other colours?
  • My trousers only stay up if I wear a belt.
  • And she still needs crutches to give her torso the stability to stay upright. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'd have to stay up all night long showing him how to use the iambics.
  • All you have to do is stay upbeat. The Sun
  • The last thing I want is to wake up my kid, take her to the neighbors, drive 45 minutes to the Birth Center, stay up until 4 am and then just have to come home because my body finks out again.
  • Does she need his support to stay upright? Times, Sunday Times
  • Did you stay up late last night?
  • They did not stay upright for long. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has to wear a belt to make his trousers stay up.
  • And don't forget - we'd have to send up some kind of grapnel as well, if we want the end to stay up there. ' Of Time and Stars
  • And she doesn't make it easy for them... they have to stay upright in a pair of ridiculous heels and control a husky dog. The Sun
  • He was tempted to stay up and think about what Bob had told him but sleepiness overcame him and he went up to bed. THREE IN ONE
  • I am currently presenting a breakfast radio programme in Leeds, which necessitates my rising at 4.30am, and as I have reached that age when the prostate likes to give the ravelled sleeve a tug maybe an hour or two before that, the temptation to just stay up and switch on the TV has been irresistible. The ravelled mystery of David Lloyd's eyebrows
  • She could always sweet-talk Pamela into letting her stay up late.
  • These sticks are not strong enough to stay up.
  • I used to stay up late with my mom and watch movies.
  • But getting the timing right is tricky and might require you to stay up into the early hours. The Sun
  • Hopefully it won't include filthy ballet pumps and dresses that don't stay up. The Sun
  • These sticks are not strong enough to stay up.
  • He seems to be the only one taking them seriously, guzzling energy drinks so that he can stay up all night revising. Times, Sunday Times
  • Favorite place to stay up all night and bar-hop: Mexico City What are your favorite places, people & things in Mexico?
  • But I had three kids 4 years apart (they are now 23, 25, & 27) one would not sleep during the night and rarely napped (she's 25 now & still loves to stay up all night) and one was a premie who had to be fed every two hours and it would take an hour to feed her because feeding would exhaust her. Deep Into The Darkness | Her Bad Mother
  • Did you stay up late last night?
  • So stay up-to-date with Lieche-China Train Schedules [Need to be able to read & type a minimal amount of Hanzi to use this website] Tiger Leaping Gorge & Zhongdian « Peace Corps: China
  • I like to stay up late most nights, much to the annoyance of my girlfriend.
  • I set off downstream, walking, wading and scrambling, trying to stay upright on the algae-covered rocks.
  • We switched off for one minute but we can stay up. The Sun
  • I stay up late at night reading stupid Philosophy readings and wake up early to read some more.
  • I would stay up late at night watching movies with the 5th graders, chase around the toddlers, and play peekaboo with the infants.
  • Take her to an Easter vigil or to an Eastern Orthodox Easter midnight service: dramatic-and she gets to stay up late.
  • If you don't ritualize a specific bedtime, you'll end up finding ways to stay up later, just the way you do now. Why Sleep Is More Important Than Food
  • If prices stay up, oil companies will start pumping in fields that are unprofitable at lower prices, and will pour money into exploring for new fields.
  • We didn't overbalance, but we did end up veering around a bit to stay upright.
  • Being the firstborn child doesn't just mean you get to stay up later; it also may win you the country.
  • He spread his legs and braced his feet in the sand to stay upright.
  • The only way I can make up for insulting him will be to stay up late into the night while he gets drunk and we sing songs together and repledge our friendship. Six Bad Things
  • They have 27 points, which is still not enough to stay up yet it's unconceivable they would go down. The Sun
  • Even more than staying in a hotel you will have the freedom to get up when you like, stay up as late as you choose, come and go as you please, and eat when you want.
  • West Ham must stay solvent - and stay up. The Sun
  • After that a few beers and then back to ours to play games - we'll probably stay up all night if the beer lasts!
  • Sanger has to stay up tonight, for there is a lot of homework to do.
  • To my astonishment, I make it up on my second attempt and by the third try I manage to stay up for a full three minutes.
  • I'm surprised some of those cheap houses stay up at all.
  • When I was younger I could stay up all night and not get tired.
  • And she doesn't make it easy for them... they have to stay upright in a pair of ridiculous heels and control a husky dog. The Sun
  • The nights I don't dream about you are the nights I stay up thinking of you.
  • If you behave yourself, I'll let you stay up to watch the movie.
  • I think I'll stay up late this Christmas Eve, hot cider in hand, and ask him myself.
  • It's called a moonbow and if you're at Yosemite National Park this weekend, you might want to stay up late to catch a glimpse. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • The nights I don't dream about you are the nights I stay up thinking of you.
  • young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight
  • Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are effete liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends.
  • Afterwards she relented and let the children stay up late to watch TV.
  • I will make this radio work even if I have to stay up all night.
  • Who will win battle to stay up? Times, Sunday Times
  • He has to wear a belt to make his trousers stay up.

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