Example sentences of "stop [pers pn] [prep] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We were later told about Piggy 's asthma which stopped him from doing many physical things like swimming and running . |
| 4 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 5 | But the Dutch stopped us from doing that at later funerals . |
| 6 | Let her do things which help her understand the world ; stop her from doing things which are dangerous or antisocial . |
| 7 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 8 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 9 | If you 're gon na do it like that we 're gon na have to stop you from doing it . |
| 10 | I wanted to say that it was not a question of ‘ letting ’ Aunt Louise do anything ; I wanted to say I should like to see anyone trying to stop her from doing anything she had set her heart on . |
| 11 | We can note , too , that the tippe-top differs markedly from the gyroscope : a tippe-top turns over spontaneously — indeed , it is hard to stop it from doing so — whereas a considerable amount of effort is required to flip over a gyroscope . |
| 12 | It has n't actually done cos I put that funnel on the end to stop it from doing it . |