Example sentences of "[pers pn] stayed [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 2 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 3 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |
| 4 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |
| 5 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 6 | He stayed outside for a while before being ordered back inside his caravan by the soldiers . |
| 7 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 8 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 9 | From Pforta in 1864 he went to the University of Bonn to read classical philology and theology , but he stayed only for a single year . |