Example sentences of "[conj] stay [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 2 | Now the scholars amongst you will quickly realise that staying in a hotel near Balquhidder would lend itself to terms of geographic convenience to tackling Ben More , Ben Vorlich or even Ben Lawers . |
| 3 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 4 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 5 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 6 | Various suggestions were made , and the final plan was that Patsy , her husband and their two little boys should come and stay in a hotel in our village for the weekend . |
| 7 | ‘ I sometimes go and stay at a house where a girl was killed . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I ca n't afford to be emotional about it all and stay on a high . |
| 9 | I used to come up quite often and stay for a couple of days and just revel in meeting high-spirited people who did n't care about university politics . |
| 10 | Doctors are under great pressure and no longer come around in pony and trap and stay for a round of golf and two glasses of sherry . |
| 11 | We arrived and stayed at a farm house with these people in Cumberland . |
| 12 | In October 1815 a Mr. Scruton came , and stayed for a weekend full of music with the Green family , then went to Kendal to perform in a long concert which Green and his wife attended , together with their daughters Jane and Elizabeth . |
| 13 | She sat down on the grass and stayed for a while , talking and laughing with the children in the quiet , sunny garden . |
| 14 | A deal of Tony 's documentary work seems to involve some form of danger , ‘ I went to Asia twice ; in 1986 and when the Soviets began their pullout and stayed for a year and a half in Peshawar , Pakistan . |
| 15 | Every day he went out with his scribe in his boat and stayed for an hour in each of the twelve provinces of hid kingdom , ensuring that all was well . |
| 16 | Three years ago , Philip and Victoria took a four-week trip to San Francisco and stayed with a friend who had completely transformed the interior of his house with Oriental art and antiques . |
| 17 | They disembarked and stayed in a tavern near the Tower for the rest of the day . |
| 18 | Finally , the violence reached the point where she left and stayed in a refuge for battered women . |
| 19 | She 'd known Aunt Sarah had a temper , but to stay in a temper for five years … |
| 20 | He immediately began making anonymous donations to charity — but stayed as an agent with Kleeneze . |
| 21 | One day — so the story goes — whilst staying on a walking and fishing holiday with friends , he was asked by the village schoolmistress to mind a group of local children . |
| 22 | You have broken the Spode teapot whilst staying with an acquaintance . |
| 23 | When staying in a hotel , make as few telephone calls as possible . |