Example sentences of "stay [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tour 's nearly over but there 's still enough time to take in the fabulous sight of Paris illuminated by night , where we will stay for one night . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll just stay for one game , ’ Christine said , unable to resist the longing to play . |
| 3 | The warden and his wife , being owners of a Siamese cat , were not overjoyed to see Emily but they reluctantly fed her a saucer of milk , saying that she could stay for one night . |
| 4 | This locomotive will stay for one week only . |
| 5 | I could n't stay for one day . ’ |
| 6 | The rest of the time , he 'd stay with one of his friends when they were out campaigning for the animals . ’ |
| 7 | She told him nervously , one eye on Alexander , how she had stayed with one of Mme Grimaud 's innumerable cousins in Orange , had seen Racine 's Britannicus and a Cocteau ballet on the same subject in the Théâtre Antique . |
| 8 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 9 | Firstly , it is time to accept that television viewers are now totally multi-channel orientated , no longer staying with one channel solely . |
| 10 | Mrs. Fielding , who suffers from extreme nervousness , was staying with one of her sons over the new year when thieves broke into her home in Milton Keynes and ransacked it . |
| 11 | Casting one 's eyes over the palaces and lodges In which they lived , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Nicolae and Elena had stayed in one over-decorated and garish hotel too many . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's not many would have stayed in one piece like that . |
| 13 | It 's been enormously successful because we 've done it on an activist basis so that activists have met one another , all those prejudices and all those stereotypes have immediately vanished as soon as people have stayed in one another 's homes and realized that people have the same problems , they have the same , they have the same problems and the same difficulty er as difficulties as we do . |
| 14 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 15 | The highlight of the tour — a seven night stay on the shores of Lake Garda staying in one of our excellent hotels . |
| 16 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 17 | The four enjoyed extraordinary value for money , staying in one of the USSR 's international mountaineering camps , based on a glacier 4,200 metres up . |
| 18 | At the same time by staying in one of our centres you have the benefit of all the attractions of a city based holiday . |
| 19 | Regular summer visitors return from far afield year after year , camping in the bay next door or staying in one or the two small hotels . |
| 20 | ‘ I understand that your brother , Ernie , is staying in one of your vans . ’ |
| 21 | There is the choice of either staying in one of the Halls of Residence where there are full Catering and Bar facilities available or in one of the many University Self-Catering Flats . |
| 22 | I knew there was something going on ; all those trips away , and getting drunk and not being able to come home , staying at one of your chums ’ delightful little pied-à-terres . |
| 23 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 24 | Bensons have gone up after all their adverts about staying at one ninety nine or something they 've gone up . |
| 25 | I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place , while he sees white men going where they please . |
| 26 | The females could stay in one place , taking care of the babies with their free hands , and in return for finding her and the infants a male would have his own female always available for sex . ’ |
| 27 | If the model should decide to rotate on its own accord due to something having broken , it will usually stay in one spot and rotate quite happily . |
| 28 | People have said ‘ Why did n't you stay in one place ? ’ — and this would be more economic . ’ |
| 29 | You can of course stay in one of our other hotels featured in this brochure but parking will have to be either on the street or in one of the municipal car parks . |
| 30 | All the way through school , my mum used to go away for a fortnight 's rest during the summer and I would go and stay in one of the various holiday homes for disabled children . |