Example sentences of "[noun sg] to stop [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER REID last night told the rest of English football to stop bleating about Blackburn 's spend , spend , spend policy . |
| 2 | ENVIRONMENT Minister David Maclean said yesterday that it was ‘ unrealistic ’ to ask industry to stop dumping waste in rivers and the sea ‘ overnight ’ . |
| 3 | The actual technique is to jet a small area and as spray or steam obscures the action to stop jetting and assess the effect before continuing . |
| 4 | And perhaps , she decided , being realistic , as long as she did not let things go too far it would do her no harm to stop trying to resist them and simply go with the flow of her feelings for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ She told me , thank God , that she had to stuff a handkerchief in her mouth to stop laughing too loudly . ’ |
| 6 | Companies are also obliged by law to stop sending mail to you if you ask them . |
| 7 | Later in the night , as she lay crying at his side , he bade her for God 's sake to stop snivelling , so that he might get to sleep . |
| 8 | Workmen added 4ft to the top of the 6ft-high wooden fence round her Wentworth , Surrey , hideaway to stop prying eyes . |
| 9 | The old and still very popular variety ‘ Old Blush China ’ is reputedly ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ of the nineteenth-century poet Thomas Moore , no doubt due to its remarkable reluctance to stop blooming each autumn . |
| 10 | Nails had a job to stop swiping Nutty one . |
| 11 | He relapsed into a dangerous silence when they accused him of ‘ breaking family ties ’ by his refusal to stop writing letters to the Strickers ' home . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Scooper 's blind 83-year-old mother , Henny , whose cancerous breast parallels Scooper 's atrophied heart , is in a hospital bed , facing an appalling future ( she has cheated death by her refusal to stop talking ) but still struggling to get across her philosophy : do n't worry about being healthy — just live ! |
| 13 | May be Councillor efforts 'd be better employed asking his leader to stop wasting public money and direct a bit more into Social Services |
| 14 | I wanted Rickie to stop using it , and I wanted a friend to stop using it as well , and so I learned everything I could . ’ |
| 15 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 16 | Toby Weaver , Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education and Science and a merciless private critic of successive Ministers , found in him ‘ the first person to stop talking about comprehensive reorganisation and to do something about it ’ . |
| 17 | The fixed menu idea came from Michael Vaughan , who finally convinced his reluctant wife to stop offering a choice of four dishes at every dinner two years ago . |
| 18 | Very good they are too : it 's taken me a whole month to stop laughing ! |
| 19 | Every few minutes a fresh fusillade of whirring bombs hurtles downwards to smash into the debris below , compelling the observer to stop walking idly around and take cover . |
| 20 | Russ had also written a number of uncovered personal cheques himself , despite not having an account at the bank , and had ignored auditors ' advice to stop abusing his position at the bank . |
| 21 | Mild advice to stop shouting and come back to bed because he was n't being very effective did little to deter Charles from a sense of deep injustice . |
| 22 | She longed for the silly woman to stop prattling and to blow out the candle . |
| 23 | May as well ask a man to stop breathing . ’ |
| 24 | As at Ibrox , the match is for home fans only , but 1,000 Scots fans are expected to travel and police are mounting a huge security operation to stop touting outside the stadium . |
| 25 | From the parents ' point of view , to go back to your original question about whether it 's good for children to be helped at home , of course it 's , it does n't make any sense to stop helping your child just because he 's reached the age of five . |
| 26 | It is the triangle A ' ; E ' ; E. By reducing the quantity of hours from L to L ' ; , the tax causes society to stop using hours on which the marginal social benefit , the height of the demand curve DD , exceeds the marginal social cost , the height of the supply curve SS . |
| 27 | In ordinary cars the higher temperature is produced by having a higher compression ratio and one is used to having high performance cars which have a high compression ratio and need special grades of petrol to avoid knocking and pinking and other effects detrimental to the car , and of course that leads to the need for lead to be added to petrol to stop knocking . |
| 28 | ( The Armada threat having passed , Parliament sent a message to stop firing from the Beacon . |
| 29 | Britain is to continue producing plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons , despite the decision by the US government to stop doing so , and an appeal by President Bush for other nations to follow suit . |
| 30 | to smoke when it comes to stopping smoking there is an element there where people do n't have the choice to stop smoking , it 's portrayed as something you do if you have the willpower . |