Example sentences of "stop it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 2 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 3 | Only the General Election stopped it going through . |
| 4 | The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden . |
| 5 | They 'll filter out most of the pollen , and stop it getting into the lungs — very important for asthmatics . |
| 6 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 7 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 8 | stop it sticking to your lips yeah that 's right , |
| 9 | Well stop it doing that . |
| 10 | Using small bits of foam or anything that would stop it getting in there . |
| 11 | How do you stop it getting into the environment , because if you hose it down it will wash down into the drains wo n't it ? |
| 12 | Make sure there 's no air around that 'll stop it rusting . |
| 13 | But they could n't stop it flopping to 3.79 German marks — just a fraction above the lowest permitted level . |
| 14 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You can stop it happening ? ’ |
| 16 | I 'm hoping in some way we can stop it happening again . |
| 17 | And if it and if , if instead of putting the ordinary zinc and , and carbon battery in you put a NiCad battery in , it 'll stop it doing that . |
| 18 | Sickness , diarrhoea and some drugs may stop it working , and extra precautions must be used . |
| 19 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 20 | Nowadays there 's an enormous amount of information about us kept in computers , and there are laws which certainly sound as though they should stop it falling into unauthorized hands . |
| 21 | Then , all the weight in the world on the wing-tip would not stop it going over . |
| 22 | We 'll stop it going to that . |
| 23 | Stopping it getting pushed . |
| 24 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 25 | I guess this locks the transfer needle , stopping it moving down and damaging itself . |
| 26 | Whatever happens work slowly and if the board jams try to find out what is holding it or stopping it moving rather than just forcing it ! |
| 27 | You 're stopping the , you 're stopping it building up . |
| 28 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 29 | But you 've only got , if you w if you put chips in a basket in a chip pan if it , the fat boils up you can at least lift the chips out straight away but if you 're putting them straight into the pan there 's no hope of stopping it coming over . |
| 30 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |