Example sentences of "[conj] staying at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have then concluded that going on to further education or staying at school are better options . |
| 2 | This implies that staying at home does not involve work . |
| 3 | The brochures claim it can be cheaper than staying at home . |
| 4 | It would have been better than staying at home but I did not want to wear a school uniform . |
| 5 | A flight crossing several time zones and staying at your destination for several days |
| 6 | As we have seen , the securely married mother playing the role and staying at home has no social security entitlement ; let her ‘ break the rules ’ and leave her husband and she can draw £14 a week for herself , besides allowances for rent and for the children . |
| 7 | Tom was his grandmother 's only grandchild and one day , when he was fifteen and staying at her house in Rickmansworth in order to have access to the piano , she told him she was going to make him her heir . |
| 8 | She knew it would be useless to suggest that running away to Bristol looked more suspicious than pretending a stomach upset and staying at home . |
| 9 | So by keeping out of the way and staying at sea he hoped to put himself right . |
| 10 | Bernard Villette is a friend of Claudine and staying at the château . ’ |
| 11 | They felt that after the war the government should take powers to control the volume of investment , and the resources of the economy should be centrally assessed and allocated with the aim of reaching and staying at full employment . |
| 12 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 13 | Margaret Donoghue and Clive Brown were living in bed-sits and staying at her parents ' home with two of their babies before the move to Calthorpe Court , in the town Cannon Park district . |
| 14 | However , if staying at home is not possible , there are still many decisions to be made . |
| 15 | His other was on holiday , though he and his mother were not going away anywhere , in spite of what the doctor had advised , but staying at home and ‘ going out for days ’ . |
| 16 | In 1811 Abbot and Charlotte Upcher , while staying at Yarmouth , saw and fell for a farm which was being sold by Cook Flower . |
| 17 | Children are assessed while staying at the Institute for up to four weeks ( this may be extended in some cases ) . |
| 18 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 19 | While staying at The Vyne in Hampshire at the end of the last century , Lord Charles Beresford made a spectacular conquest which led to the object of his desire suggesting that they furthered their acquaintance in her room after the rest of the party had retired . |
| 20 | Bardot took the overdose on Saturday while staying at her villa near St Tropez with Bernard and friends . |
| 21 | In 1903 , while staying at Sandringham with King Edward VII , Knowles was knighted . |
| 22 | WHILE staying at the hotel — there is easy access from junctions 16 and 18 on the M6 and Crewe railway station is nearby — you will have the opportunity to visit the exotic Stapeley Water Gardens , Bridgemere Garden World or the Cheshire candle workshops . |
| 23 | As a party of French anglers did , whilst staying at the Grant Arms , Monymusk , in May 1987 for three days . |
| 24 | He died , unexpectedly , after a short illness aged only 39 whilst staying at the Phoenix Hotel in Taunton . |
| 25 | That is , until a few months later when Darnley and his page boy , whilst staying at Kirk o' Fields Palace , were killed in an explosion . |
| 26 | Sovereign Golf offers reduced green fees when staying at the Suites Hotel . |
| 27 | I think he saw her role as staying at home , keeping a base in England for him when he decided to retire . |