Example sentences of "stopped [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face . |
| 2 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 3 | Caspar stopped sniffing in a bracken tunnel and came bounding back towards Philip . |
| 4 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 5 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 6 | Council records show that during the last 18 months 32 companies and 12 sole traders stopped trading in the town ‘ for one reason or another . ’ |
| 7 | May Sinclair stopped writing in the late 1920s . |
| 8 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 9 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 10 | ‘ She never stopped chattering through the entire performance and of course that made everybody look at her . ’ |
| 11 | When I finally stopped growing at the age of 17 I felt relief . |
| 12 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 13 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 14 | Scottish scholars stopped going to the English universities ; the veneer of English influence on Scottish law and judicial practice was torn away . |
| 15 | Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement . |
| 16 | But there 's quite a few stopped going to the club with women not being well and their legs bad and |
| 17 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 18 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 19 | She stopped speaking as the buzzer on his desk interrupted her . |
| 20 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 21 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 22 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 23 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 24 | But , having raised expectations , the regime then stopped moving towards the logical sequel , which would have been to offer the electorate an opportunity to replace its present leadership with a new one . |
| 25 | Even if the couple got to the city before war began , it was unlikely that they would get out before the trains stopped running to the Channel ports . |
| 26 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 27 | " And then , about four months ago , Mr. Andrew stopped coming to the office . |
| 28 | Windscale the cat stopped coming into the bedroom : lay on one of the new chairs in the living room instead . |
| 29 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 30 | ‘ Then it 's high time you stopped behaving like a child , young lady , ’ her father said . |