Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to stay at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 2 | Jim had decided to stay at a hotel there till his car was mended . |
| 3 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 4 | Suzanne , I could call myself Suzanne : it was the name of one of the actresses Dad had brought to stay at our house for a week because there were bedbugs at her lodgings . |
| 5 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 6 | That 's why it was surprising that Jenny had gone to stay at Moorlake in these last months . |
| 7 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 8 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |