Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] stay [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 2 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 3 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 4 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 5 | They had been staying at a log cabin holiday home at Cropton , near Pickering , and yesterday , Ray Allanson , manager of the Forestry Commission 's Keldy Forest cabins , said : ‘ They left without any maps unaware of the dangers of walking in the forest at night . |
| 6 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 7 | The hotel 's owner said nine Irishmen had been staying at the hotel since June , all of them apparently working as builders . |
| 8 | Isadore Johnson , 29 , from London , had been staying at the party house in Northampton . |
| 9 | On a walking holiday in the Spanish mountains , Jeremy had been staying at the Elola climbers ' refuge and had left there two weeks before to spend a day taking photographs . |
| 10 | Stephen Smith had been staying at the Hallerton House Children 's Home in Cheltenham since July . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our next-door neighbours , Mr and Mrs Buckley , had a daughter named Sally who had been staying with an aunt for a year or so . |
| 13 | He and Polly and the twins had been to stay at the cottage once , that was all , for a weekend . |