Example sentences of "[noun] stop talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah stopped talking , and put her hands on her stomach . |
| 2 | The Archdeacon stopped talking instantly and the Dean crossed his long legs . |
| 3 | Berndt stopped talking . |
| 4 | Would Liam stop talking crap . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Scooper 's blind 83-year-old mother , Henny , whose cancerous breast parallels Scooper 's atrophied heart , is in a hospital bed , facing an appalling future ( she has cheated death by her refusal to stop talking ) but still struggling to get across her philosophy : do n't worry about being healthy — just live ! |
| 6 | She wanted Lily to stop talking . |
| 7 | The DUP 's attitude to future talks is unambiguous — either the Dublin government ‘ deals with ’ articles 2 and 3 of the constitution and John Hume stops talking to Gerry Adams or Ian Paisley will not be at the conference table . |
| 8 | As it was , Lili chatted easily and Robert timed his eating to synchronise with her fluency ; when Lili stopped talking to eat he carried on , not in the same vein but sufficiently in harmony with her style not to upset the balance of conviviality . |
| 9 | The conversationalists stop talking about ‘ money ’ and move on to ‘ sex ’ . |
| 10 | Toby Weaver , Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education and Science and a merciless private critic of successive Ministers , found in him ‘ the first person to stop talking about comprehensive reorganisation and to do something about it ’ . |
| 11 | When the sound of high-flying aircraft began to soak into the atmosphere people stopped talking but looked more interested than afraid . |
| 12 | ‘ Many wives are frightened to ‘ go public ’ in case neighbours stop talking to them . |
| 13 | Government spokesmen persuaded the media to stop talking about the ‘ My Lai massacre ’ and call it instead the ‘ My Lai incident ’ . |
| 14 | Christine stopped talking , wringing one hand through the other . |
| 15 | The Brownie Guider put her fingers in her ears , and at last the Brownies stopped talking all together . |
| 16 | Mary came over to the bar , on that the two men stopped talking and smiled at her . |
| 17 | The albino stopped talking . |
| 18 | Gesner stopped talking and turned round , his eyes narrowed . |
| 19 | To arrive there the counsellor has to stop talking , and in order to stop talking , answerable and leading questions are required . |
| 20 | When speaker D stops talking about cobbles ( i.e. rough for cycling on ) , speaker C can attempt to return to her topic ( rough in terms of the em + people ) . |
| 21 | Colleagues stopped talking to me , afraid no doubt that being on the wrong side of the new Director might prove contagious . |
| 22 | " He told Fiver to stop talking about it . " |