Example sentences of "stop [conj] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll stop when it gets to the Monument . ’ |
| 3 | The rain kept starting and stopping and it looked as if most of our march was going to be in the wet . |
| 4 | The train was n't stopping until it got to London ; there were other people in the carriage and surely these men would n't dare try anything here , now . |
| 5 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 6 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |