Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] staying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 2 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On trial at Worcester Crown Court were thirty year old Jamie Ray , a Californian who 'd been staying in England , James Lovelidge from London who 's twenty seven and unemployed , and Michael Rock , a forty one year old French Canadian who was living in London . |
| 7 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 8 | ‘ How do you like your egg ? ’ asked Lydia , determined to be pleasant since the one thing more disagreeable than staying with someone you detested was staying with someone who detested you too . |
| 9 | The hotel 's owner said nine Irishmen had been staying at the hotel since June , all of them apparently working as builders . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 12 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 13 | Omar Kujabi , a Senegalese labourer and amateur wrestler , has not been seen at the Abuko reserve , near Banjul , since the body of Mrs Penelope Hiscocks , 42 , was found in the grounds of a house where she had been staying . |
| 14 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 15 | Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy . |
| 16 | He had been staying with our best man , Leading Seaman Geoffrey Bond , who , for health reasons was now leaving the Navy to do work in the coal mines . |
| 17 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 18 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 19 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 20 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 23 | Isadore Johnson , 29 , from London , had been staying at the party house in Northampton . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 26 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 27 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The French , who had been staying away in droves , would also be targeted with a splashy new advertising campaign . |
| 30 | Burun remembered that the man 's name was Yuan , and that he had been staying with Nogai . |