Sentence examples for had once stayed from inspiring English sources

They treated us like the visiting dignitaries who had once stayed at the grand property -- now past its prime.

She took me around the Spanish-style house, pointing out Gianni's private rooms, which overlooked Ocean Drive, and the room where Jack Nicholson had once stayed.

Clark Gable and Katharine Hepburn had once stayed there, but when Haggis arrived it was a run-down church retreat called the Manor Hotel.

They stayed at the Dan Hotel, in Tel Aviv, in what they were told was the same room that Bill Clinton had once stayed in.

Thus the narrator only suffers the full effects of his beloved grandmother's death when he later stays at the same hotel at Balbec, where they had once stayed together.

Stewart, a forty-nine-year-old lawyer and native of Duluth, Minnesota, showed me around, pointing out a room where George and Martha Washington had once stayed as guests.

The ancient Greek town, which is only 12 kilometers from Ephesus, a leading ancient historical site in Turkey and a biblical location where the Virgin Mary is said to have once stayed, offers an authentic Aegean experience with good local wine, fine olive oil and traditional handcrafts.

Audiences felt instantly that these were people they knew, or had met at a party, or, in extreme cases, had once warned to stay away from their daughter.

The vote assures that the agreement, which includes a salary-cap system the players had once opposed, will stay in place until September 2011.

The hotel where I was staying had once been owned by a famous gangster.

When Jerusalem was crushed by Rome in the year 70 -- so brutally that, according to the historian Josephus, "no one visiting the spot would believe it had once been inhabited" -- some Jews stayed on, but the vast majority made their homes in foreign lands.