Example sentences of "went to stay [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's .
2 In return , the Hendersons agreed to open the new ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shop and Bernard and Laura went to stay at the Embassy for the occasion , sleeping in what had become known as the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ room at the Embassy .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Panna 's mother , fearing the consequences , left the village with the baby and went to stay with a cousin fifty kilometres away .
6 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 ’ .
7 ‘ In the late afternoon , ’ wrote Evelyn Waugh in his diaries , ‘ I went to stay with the Betjemans in a lightless , stuffy , cold poky rectory among beechwoods overlooking Wantage . ’
8 When she went to stay for a day or two on Hydra , I accompanied her on the morning boat , and left her there .
9 By 1969 Victor had suggested that Neville wrote a book ; it was to be Playpower , and the foursome went to stay in a Devon country house where the Australian worked on the manuscript .
10 As a relative , Dick Levy went to stay in the family home .
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