Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] could [adv] stop " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the worst thing was that I could n't stop shaking . |
| 2 | I suppose the most annoying thing was that I could n't stop saying ‘ sorry ’ all the time . |
| 3 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 4 | Jessamy was so shaken by his quietly spoken reply that she could n't stop herself from over-reacting . |
| 5 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 6 | She had been in the habit of anxiety and tension for so long that she could not stop now , merely because the menace was being taken away . |
| 7 | Jill , counting , leafed through ten-pound notes , smiled , nodded , her mouth moving to indicate that she could not stop . |
| 8 | But , once she began thinking along those lines , she was horrified to find that she could not stop . |
| 9 | When she saw that she could not stop him she tried another tack . |
| 10 | Not that she could entirely stop thinking about Joss Barnet . |
| 11 | She could no more walk away from him now than she could voluntarily stop breathing . |
| 12 | They were not the illegal so we could n't stop them from delivering them . |
| 13 | One solution would be to shut up and keep a low profile ; Jeremiah tried to do that , but … discovered that he could n't stop speaking . |
| 14 | But his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly stop himself knocking the food off the plate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But he kept on talking , and I could n't stop myself from hearing . |
| 17 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 18 | I fell a d do you remember we went before and I fell and I just sat there and I could n't , they , this erm woman and this man come to help me up and I could n't stop laughing , they could n't get me up . |
| 19 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |
| 20 | I was on the limit and I could not stop when he braked . |
| 21 | Then I wished I had asked him to walk with me to the coach , and I could not stop crying . |
| 22 | My other half switched on teletext after about 15 mins and I could nt stop myself from looking … still 2–0 . |
| 23 | Erm if I could just stop there for a couple of minutes to er make a point about er independent taxation . |
| 24 | There was a nasty loud noise in her head , and a strange feeling started moving up through her body from her feet until she could n't stop shaking . |
| 25 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 26 | The cold seeped into her muscles and she could n't stop shaking but she would n't look up too soon and betray Ember who was good to her . |
| 27 | She guessed that , whatever had been done to minimise the damage , he 'd have a headache by now , and she could n't stop herself feeling an immediate pang of sympathy . |
| 28 | I 've done that to Pam and she could n't stop laughing ! |
| 29 | Tears would not bring him back , but somehow her mind could not register that , and she could not stop the slow salt trickle from creeping down her cheeks . |
| 30 | Love was pouring through her and she could not stop it , lying beneath him , helpless to prevent the tears which sprung to her eyes and rolled over her cheeks . |