Example sentences of "stay with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certain that bees are very responsive to different tones of the human voice , and this is probably the reason for the country belief that bees are peace-loving beings and will not stay with a quarrelsome family . |
| 2 | His wife Hiba and son Vernes will probably stay with a local family as time goes on . |
| 3 | During their week in Tokyo , which is being funded by a private charity , the students will stay with a Japanese family , visit schools and join John and Norma at official functions . |
| 4 | Should I stay with a cheat ? |
| 5 | Modigliani would never have stayed with a nonentity . |
| 6 | The house interior had changed very little , certainly not in my flat where the tenant had stayed with a late Victorian decor , lots of mahogany furniture , red velvet curtains at the bow window and a sort of Chinese wallpaper in gold and green , heavily patterned with birds . |
| 7 | Each puppy stays with a volunteer for a year before finishing its training with qualified experts . |
| 8 | The family were staying with a friend of my grandmother 's in La Ciotat , a small harbour town near Marseille , our normal home . |
| 9 | Some rare people remain slim by staying with a very restrictive way of eating . |
| 10 | I was staying with a Filipino family on Mindanao , one of the southernmost of the 7,000 Philippine islands , two hours ' flying time from Manila , in a place called Dapitan City in the province of Zamboanga del Norte . |
| 11 | He 's in New York , you know , though he insists on staying with a friend in that dreadful apartment over on the West side . |
| 12 | The children were staying with a neighbour ; in the afternoon , Nonni went shopping . |
| 13 | Katie , from Hawley , Hants , had been staying with a pal at the time of her murder after a row with her parents two weeks earlier . |
| 14 | I was at university and it was in recess and we were having a social evening in a village hall and I was staying with a friend . |
| 15 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 16 | This happens when the genitive is the principal part of an of-adjunct to a preceding noun : It was no fault of the Doctor 's , I 'm staying with a friend of Mary 's . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm staying with a friend and it 's even more cramped than your sister 's flat , ’ he said politely , and Claudia repressed a smile ; Denzil 's flat had plenty of room , but she was glad Roman did n't want to share it with Dana . |
| 18 | She and Alec were staying with a ‘ grand friend ’ of the doctor 's , a Senor Porua , who lived nearby . |
| 19 | Twenty-four hours ago her life had seemed straightforward and uncomplicated , and now she was staying with a family she did n't know , invited to a wedding where she would know none of the guests — and extraordinarily attracted to a man with blue eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll be staying with a number of Japanese families so will have to learn how to communicate and become less of a gaijin ( foreigner ) , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ They stay with a friend for two or three weeks but they usually fall out and the ex-offender becomes homeless . ’ |
| 22 | Why had Mungo agreed to stay with a cousin he had never met ? |
| 23 | Every year on her annual holidays , Patsy paid a dutiful visit of one half day to the orphanage which had reared her , and then she went to stay with a friend who had married in Dublin . |
| 24 | No , she was supposed to be going to stay with a girlfriend from the India days who lived in Perthshire . |
| 25 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 26 | Pete Garrett , 54 , wrote to the DSS telling them he was going to stay with a friend in the city — the fifth largest in Britain . |
| 27 | This is a comfortable , warm and sunny place to stay with a prize-winning garden laden with tropical and sub-tropical plants and an outdoor heated swimming pool bordered by palm trees . |
| 28 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 29 | Auntie Lou 's cold ‘ hung on ’ , as she put it , and she went to stay with a friend in the bigger town down the valley . |
| 30 | When Mrs Gaskell herself went to stay with a duke , her daughter , Meta , suggested that they should dress themselves up in the bed curtains ‘ of thick white satin stamped with little rosebuds ’ . |