Example sentences of "stop him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 2 | His brother stopped him from swallowing his tongue . |
| 3 | The only thing which stopped him from making an outright proposal of marriage was the knowledge that he had no security to offer whatsoever . |
| 4 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 5 | We were later told about Piggy 's asthma which stopped him from doing many physical things like swimming and running . |
| 6 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 7 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 8 | She stopped him by resting a hand on his arm , and spoke to him — it was the first time . |
| 9 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 10 | ‘ Would a thing like this stop him from staying in power ? ’ |
| 11 | But the hag keeps up her terrifying noise , her writhing and screaming , to pin down the youth 's attention , stop him from pursuing Ariel , and she succeeds , he can not bear the sound of her hissing and shrieking another moment . |
| 12 | She looked up into his face , fighting back the urge to reach out her hand and stop him from going . |
| 13 | They are meant to appeal to Tamburlaine 's humanity and hopefully stop him from plundering the town . |
| 14 | All the lovely prickles and twists stopped and she was left with nothing but a feeling of panic , able to think of nothing but how could she stop him without making him angry . |
| 15 | Word was that Mark lacked the bottle to repel Ambrose and his cohorts in the Caribbean two winters ago : yet that did n't stop him from topping the Australian averages . |
| 16 | Alexander 's interests and those of Athens were thus opposed ( which did not stop him from minting copiously in coinage designed for easy trade with Athens ) , and the opposition was inherited by every Macedonian king till Philip , who ended it by seizing Amphipolis for good . |
| 17 | The lord of Parfois was a law to himself ; if he ever did discover where Master Harry lay buried , the Severn would not stop him from pursuing the dead with his living and virulent hatred , the Welsh border would be no bar to him , even the sanctity of the church would not restrain him . |
| 18 | It did n't stop him from wanting to ask questions but from now on he would have to find out the answers himself . |
| 19 | But that did n't stop him from noting that chance played the biggest part in the suburb 's rich visual appeal . |
| 20 | Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's always laughing and does n't let his disability stop him from having fun . |
| 22 | Aldo was supposed to be carrying an injury , but it did n't stop him from running away to make it 3-0 . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , Diego Rivera 's membership of the Communist party did not stop him from painting radical murals on the walls of government buildings . |
| 24 | Last year he stayed home , although it did n't stop him from travelling to Ireland with Mick Fowler . |
| 25 | Should you stop him from going out ? |
| 26 | I mean , it does n't stop him from going shooting and fishing does it ? |
| 27 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 28 | And sadly , Olympic rowers are n't the only ones feeling the pinch … on the eve of a new international rugby season Gloucester 's World Cup hero Mike Teague is seeking compensation from the sport 's governing body Iron man Mike claims the shoulder injury he suffered while playing for England has stopped him from working as a builder and he 's lost between three and five thousand pounds in earnings . |
| 29 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 30 | Then he read a textbook of hers about the craft of the dramatist and it had stopped him from showing her anything for a year . |