Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] stop [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate sighed ‘ Anyway , I could n't stop James , even if I wanted to . |
| 2 | But I could not stop Cathy whispering something in Linton 's ear , before we left the room . |
| 3 | I could not stop crying . ’ |
| 4 | Then I wished I had asked him to walk with me to the coach , and I could not stop crying . |
| 5 | She 's not frightened of anyone , I bet she could even stop Hitler . |
| 6 | She could not stop crying . |
| 7 | Tess now felt she could not stop things happening , and agreed passively to whatever Angel suggested . |
| 8 | She could n't stop Portia . |
| 9 | She could n't stop crying , and then the pain came back and nagged at her , till she held her hands to her lower belly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 12 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 13 | Smith was omitted from the team , with Mark Sunley and Sean Gregan paired together in defence , but they could n't stop Preston winning 2–0 . |