Example sentences of "stop and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped and thought for a moment . |
| 2 | When Simon stopped and began to bombard him with questions about home , Quinn had a chance to have a look at the youth . |
| 3 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 4 | We stopped and sheltered in a farmer 's barn for the night and the following morning , misty as ever , did little to assuage my suspicions . |
| 5 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 6 | One house was so unusual that we stopped and walked around it . |
| 7 | DIANE GAMOCHE ( STUDENT ) : I was hiding beneath two desks , and he stopped and shot at me twice but nothing happened . |
| 8 | Markby stopped and stared across the field . |
| 9 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 10 | He was but stopped and stared at me , then turned and ran in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | They stopped and stared at me . |
| 12 | Christine stopped and stared at him . |
| 13 | Berdichev stopped and stared at him a moment . |
| 14 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
| 15 | He stopped and stared at her rather alarmingly , his eyes running over her from head to foot . |
| 16 | Carolyn stopped and stared at her . |
| 17 | ‘ I — ’ She stopped and stared at him . |
| 18 | She left to have a baby — ’ Miss Vinall stopped and stared at Juliet . |
| 19 | As Charlie approached the Whitechapel Road , he stopped and stared at the frantic bustle taking place all around him . |
| 20 | Matilda followed her , but just inside the doorway of the so-called sitting-room she stopped and stared around her in absolute amazement . |
| 21 | He stopped and stared after them . |
| 22 | He stopped and toyed with his glass . |
| 23 | When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster . |
| 24 | Then she started running wildly through the streets , and when she was exhausted she stopped and burst into tears . |
| 25 | She stopped and jabbed at O'Hara 's machine with her umbrella . |
| 26 | She suddenly stopped and rounded on him . |
| 27 | By common consent they stopped and leant on the oak fence that bordered the field of barley beyond . |
| 28 | The private detective following them cursed when they stopped and kissed in the middle of the street . |
| 29 | In the hall , she stopped and looked about her . |
| 30 | He stopped and looked into her face with those dark penetrating eyes which she had noticed so vividly on the night of the fire . |