Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] stop [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 2 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 3 | Then he slipped , and caught at the grass to stop himself from going to the bottom . |
| 4 | His hand on the door stopped her from opening it . |
| 5 | Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper ! |
| 6 | Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper ! |
| 7 | It has n't actually done cos I put that funnel on the end to stop it from doing it . |
| 8 | If you had one of these black holes on the surface of the earth , there would be no way to stop it from falling through the floor to the center of the earth . |
| 9 | And now she spoke kindly , in an effort to stop him from trying so hard . |