Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [not/n't] stop " in BNC.

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1 I might not stop
2 I 'll not stop you .
3 ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing .
4 I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent .
5 I could n't stop him , madam … ’
6 ‘ What could I do ? ’ , he said afterwards : ‘ I could n't steer him , I could n't stop , and I was much too frightened to jump off ! ’
7 I could n't steer him , I could n't stop , and I was much too frightened to jump off .
8 I could n't stop .
9 ‘ I 'm sorry , Mr Varna , I could n't stop her . ’
10 I could n't stop him and I was so frightened that horse , machine and me were going over that I jumped off .
11 I could n't stop myself thinking of the nights she had spent with Harry and wanting to know how much she had enjoyed them .
12 I was even more nervous because it mattered so much , and then I could n't stop talking and did n't answer the questions . ’
13 I could n't stop drinking everything in sight .
14 When I heard about his trial I could n't stop shaking . ’
15 For all that has happened , I could n't stop watching for her figure as my train pulled out into the bright sunlight and the rails took me … ’ .
16 I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop
17 I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop
18 They might have killed me , that 's what I could n't stop thinking about .
19 Kate sighed ‘ Anyway , I could n't stop James , even if I wanted to .
20 I could n't stop myself .
21 I knew it was wrong but I could n't stop doing it .
22 Encouraged by Joe 's honest words I went to bed , but I could n't stop myself thinking that Estella would consider Joe 's boots too thick and his hands too coarse , and our whole family common .
23 I loved her because I could n't stop myself loving her .
24 I sensed the warmth screaming out of the atmosphere to be replaced with the absolute zero of his clinical persona but I could n't stop myself .
25 I could n't stop chatting .
26 I think the worst thing was that I could n't stop shaking .
27 I could n't stop them .
28 I said I could n't stop the night because I was going away on holiday early the next morning .
29 I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches .
30 But although I was happy there were two questions I could n't stop thinking about .
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