Example sentences of "have stop [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 2 | The later movements in this symphony are more consistently successful , though the Beethovenian repeated-note fortissimos towards the end of the minuet could be ruder ; while in the Adagio , done with finesse and tenderness of line , the extraordinary nasal timbre of the muted trumpets never really tells — and the eerie sustained low C which should sound after the rest of the orchestra has stopped playing in bar 56 ( 4′43″ ) is quite inaudible here . |
| 3 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 4 | He 'd more or less stopped thinking about money ; he 'd stopped thinking about ordinary living . |
| 5 | An hour later , she 'd stopped thinking in those precise terms , and was trying to tell herself he 'd been detained . |
| 6 | She 'd stopped looking at him . |
| 7 | To be a Jew was to be a member of a tribe , even if you 'd stopped dancing round the totem pole . |
| 8 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 9 | Because although she kept a guard on her tongue when she was with him , determined not to risk another quarrel , she had had to stop pretending to herself . |
| 10 | I should have stopped looking at the pictures then , when past and present had clashed in my mind and made no meaning , but I went on . |
| 11 | The hearts of hopes of Oxford fans must have stopped beating at Peterborough on saturday when their team went a goal down , after 35 minutes as Sterling banged one in. 5 defeats in a row has been dreadful . |
| 12 | Without himself he would have died , for which else , of them all , would not have stopped running after such punishment ? |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd think it would have stopped shaking by now . |
| 14 | Living in a city again meant that he would have to stop looking like a derelict . |
| 15 | They say they may have to stop working at the hospital and it ca n't survive without them . |
| 16 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 17 | It 's extraordinary — I know families who 've stopped speaking to each other . |
| 18 | I 've stopped thinking about that part of the future , I 've stopped worrying about her . |
| 19 | And we 've stopped waving to the 9.15 , and sending our love to Father by it . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll ring her when I 've stopped talking to you , she 'll be so relieved . |
| 21 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 22 | At least I 've stopped going to church . |
| 23 | Then Jammie said , ‘ What are you going to do with your life now you 've stopped going to college ? ’ |
| 24 | On average , 28% of those who smoked in 1974 had stopped smoking by 1981 . |
| 25 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 26 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 27 | She had stopped to drink from a can on the way up , caring little now for what it might be doing to her . |
| 28 | The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind ; the new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and wagon-ruts , formed towns within themselves , originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves , and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence . |
| 29 | Erika , born after the smoke of the death camps had stopped drifting across Europe , wanted deeply to try and say this to dapper Uncle Karl , born before the smoke fouled the skies . |
| 30 | Alice had stopped to listen to them because this man , this kind-faced fair one , was quite a good performer . |