Example sentences of "stop [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 2 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 3 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 4 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 5 | The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal ; I was n't going to put my face near those teeth . |
| 6 | In fact it was you I think who stopped me from pulling it up , I bought it as a , a stick from Bromley , in Bromley |
| 7 | I wish I had saved the hedgehog now , and not stood aside , and I have been wondering what stopped me from performing a natural act of sentimental kindness . |
| 8 | For 11 years they stopped me from coming back here . |
| 9 | Still , that discovery never stopped me from making another collection of the glistening best ones that same night . |
| 10 | There was something wrong with my mouth , which stopped me from talking properly . |
| 11 | As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona . |
| 12 | Something happened that stopped me from going . |
| 13 | When they returned with one last load Bicker stopped them -from going out for more . |
| 14 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 15 | Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her . |
| 16 | Her aggression , so long pent-up , was so intense that , while it lasted , it stopped her from thinking , or worrying , about anything else . |
| 17 | He stopped her from going visiting in the town , and whenever Daniel Marsh was near Nahum became angry , taking it out on the poor , innocent man whose only role in life was to serve . |
| 18 | The outfit may have been grand , but it never stopped her from working . |
| 19 | His hand on the door stopped her from opening it . |
| 20 | Once conscious again , Effie began to scream , pain taking her over , and only McAllister 's soothing hands , and Dr Neil 's voice , urging her to push with each pain , stopped her from becoming a mindless howling thing on the bed , unable to help herself . |
| 21 | What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ? |
| 22 | Some streak of reluctance stopped her from turning straight to Luke 's page in the book . |
| 23 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 24 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 25 | His brother stopped him from swallowing his tongue . |
| 26 | The only thing which stopped him from making an outright proposal of marriage was the knowledge that he had no security to offer whatsoever . |
| 27 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 28 | We were later told about Piggy 's asthma which stopped him from doing many physical things like swimming and running . |
| 29 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 30 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |