Example sentences of "[verb] the night at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 2 | However , Clifford invited Laura home to meet his wife and she spent the night at the Clifford 's home admiring their eclectic collection of artefacts . |
| 3 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 4 | When he heard of the murder this morning , he was terrified of being questioned , imagining that Vera would somehow get to hear that he 'd spent the night at the Lodge — especially if he was detained . |
| 5 | Nor had he spent the night at the opera , or at the Naval and Military Club , or feasting at Hummums Hotel as in the case of the respectable ruffians of Cremorne . |
| 6 | In one case , a 36-year-old man was imprisoned for four years for the manslaughter of a 37-year-old craft teacher after he had discovered that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , while an allegedly brutal husband was shot dead by the wife 's father after she ‘ fell into a nightmare of crime , violence and bizarre sex ’ . |
| 7 | Where the blame lay , in the case of the father who stabbed the teacher in a rage after discovering that his daughter was spending the night at the teacher 's home , was made less clear . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment . |
| 9 | I decided to spend the night at the forge , which pleased Joe very much . |
| 10 | Spend the night at the Delta Ottawa . |
| 11 | Spend the night at the Chateau Jasper . |
| 12 | Spend the night at the Dome Motor Inn in Kamloops . |
| 13 | Spend the night at the Ming Court Hotel . |
| 14 | I know I stayed the night at the station but it do n't feel real . |
| 15 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 16 | On free weekends he drove to Chastlecombe on a Saturday afternoon , took Leonora out for a meal somewhere , stayed the night at the Kings Arms in the town , and spent most of Sunday with Leonora before driving home to face his Monday morning clinic next day . |