Stay back

Many of these students, in fact, do stay back and work in Singapore after their studies are over.

When parents are late, childcare workers have to stay back late to take care of the children.

Mr Como was quite displeased and he told me to stay back tomorrow and do it.

When caught for breaking the language rule, the punishment was to stay back in school and write lines of repentance for his wrongdoing: but in the school fields and canteens, Leow noted that, “students chattered in Mandarin and Hokkien as they wished with nobody to stop them.”

'The monitoring system would require Hock to stay back after school until 5 pm everyday to catch up on his school, have one of the discipline teachers to acknowledge the time he returned home.'

'Of course, if we didn’t finish our work we had to stay back, and there was no such thing as overtime.

'Because my stupid father thought it would be good for me to stay back and serve NS. he actually insisted that I do it.'

'Sir, you have to get back,' said a uniformed voice, an ambulance officer this time. 'We're asking everybody to stay back.' 'I live here,' he said. 'With my wife and my boy. Have you seen them?'

‘No, no, no. You stay back there. I don’t want you anywhere near me.’

Other bystanders had noticed him and like Rizby, had kept their distance, but now they began to creep forward to peer at the body. ‘Stay back!’ Rizby yelled. ‘Back! All of you!’