Sentence examples for was staying only from inspiring English sources

(I, unknown to Ravi, was staying only a few blocks away in the distinctly unprestigious, but quite comfortable, Salvation Army lodgings).

Mr Gbagbo, who the day before had looked so startled in his vest in television pictures, was staying only one floor above the man who beat him in last November's election.

Because I was staying only a few days, a house on Lake St. Catherine was out of the question, so I reserved a room at a Victorian bed and breakfast called the Bentley House.

She was staying only six nights — an eyeblink for a twenty-three-year-old, a "bloody long time" for the Brit who had groused to his wife under-breath about putting up "another dewy-eyed Yank who confuses a flight to Africa with a trip to the zoo".

Aides say they took that as a clue he was staying, only to wonder on Tuesday, when a photographer came in to capture Mr. Geithner watching the final vote for the debt deal, if the photos were intended as a record of Mr. Geithner's final days.

But a possible social crisis was averted at the opening of the institute's clothes exhibition "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years -- Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum," when Mrs. Bush announced on arriving that she was staying only for the cocktail hour.

We were staying only about 30 miles from San Pier Niceto but an hour and a half away.

"Harbor" is, in the beginning, just the familiar horror story of houseguests who swear they are staying only one night and then refuse to leave.

One major question for investigators is how the gunmen knew where he would be staying; only a small number of officers, including his bodyguards, knew his movements.

Tonight I am going to be with my friend Habicht in Schaffhausen, tomorrow it's onwards via Sigmaringen to Mr. Brandhuber, with whom I'm staying only briefly in order to make good on an old promise.

Six months after that, my mother and I were free to come back, though with the explicit promise that we'd be staying only temporarily and only for business reasons.