Example sentences of "[pers pn] stay [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | Should I stay with a cheat ? |
| 3 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 4 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 5 | So I stayed on a few weeks and erm then I went back to London |
| 6 | I had been travelling the country flogging Soviet magazines — I was working for Collet 's bookshops — and I stayed with a comrade in Edinburgh who kept a boarding house . |
| 7 | I saw the virtue of her advice most clearly when I stayed with a girlfriend a few weeks ago . |
| 8 | So I shall go when people rather wished I stayed in a way . |
| 9 | I recall when Nancy Leadbetter and I stayed in a terrible fleapit of a room in Siena . |
| 10 | It was the first occasion , but by no means the last , on which I stayed in a monastery . |
| 11 | I stayed in a flea-ridden inn whilst outside the sea began to seethe and boil under a sudden black storm . |
| 12 | Stay at the Residence Orchidea and you stay at a friendly family-run complex of apartments in a quiet , residential area of Diano Marina . |
| 13 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 14 | You stay in a suite at Manila 's most elegant and historic hotel at the attractive rate of US$190++ . |
| 15 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 16 | She stayed under a side table in the front room until in 1925 my own dog ‘ Nip ’ , a terrier , took a dislike to this strange animal with glaring eyes and proceeded to tear her to pieces . |
| 17 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 18 | The Pytchley , under Mr. George Payne , gave her two brushes — and three rousing cheers , for she enjoyed the first day 's hunting with them so much she stayed for a second . |
| 19 | During last week 's trip to Taiwan , she stayed in a £1,000-a-night luxury hotel suite . |
| 20 | You stayed in a hotel , I think ? ’ |
| 21 | It was the one thing you could n't do when you stayed in a hotel . |
| 22 | If you stayed in a nice hotel for a hundred quid a night |
| 23 | No we 're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party , the works Christmas party and erm , the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham , that 's where they 're doing Christmas party this year , so we obviously we staying in a double room |
| 24 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 25 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 26 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 27 | We stayed about a hundred metres behind them . |
| 28 | ‘ We stayed at a guest house as Mr and Mrs |
| 29 | ‘ Strange , ’ I muttered to Benjamin as we stayed at a tavern on our first night out of Calais . |
| 30 | We stayed at a splendid hostel there . |