Example sentences of "stop it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The booms , which were due to be removed yesterday absorbed the oil spillage and stopped it from flowing downstream . |
| 2 | Dissolves stop it from sucking the liquid back again . |
| 3 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 4 | Stop it from getting in … ’ |
| 5 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 6 | No plant matter is actively used in the construction of the nest , but it may be used indirectly to anchor the nest and stop it from floating away . |
| 7 | ‘ … they could n't stop it by confiscating Highlander . |
| 8 | If you had a cold , aconite would stop it from developing , or keep a bad cold from becoming something worse . |
| 9 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 10 | Well that do n't stop it from getting on her nerves does it ? |
| 11 | This should stop it from debauching the currency . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that over the years America has been Israel 's guardian , both politically and militarily , and continues to give Israel $3 billion-worth of aid annually , that does not stop it from falling victim to Mossad 's activities . |
| 13 | Or stopping it from rotting the furniture . |
| 14 | He said the oil would either be absorbed by the booms or would stack up behind them , stopping it from getting downstream . |
| 15 | No because what 's stopping it from going on to any erm what 's stopping it from becoming capitalist and |
| 16 | No because what 's stopping it from going on to any erm what 's stopping it from becoming capitalist and |
| 17 | And it 's , this is what the wall 's doing , it 's the normal reaction frictional force , keeping the , holding the ladder up , stopping it from sliding down . |
| 18 | The mistakes made in the manufacture of the mirror , which is as smooth as could be desired but the wrong shape , have stopped it from seeing many of the faint objects it should be looking at . |
| 19 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 20 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 21 | The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned . |
| 22 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 23 | The machine is spragged to the walls to stop it from rocking , but it does n't . |
| 24 | To stop it from sucking because it dissolves too well It 's like you in there drinking drinking er coke out of a straw if you you suck enough It 'll all end up in your mouth . |
| 25 | Alternatively , he might spread the front of the shirt across his body to stop it from slipping down his arm . |
| 26 | Aye , he said it 's just er to stop it from slipping straight off |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has n't actually done cos I put that funnel on the end to stop it from doing it . |
| 29 | If you had one of these black holes on the surface of the earth , there would be no way to stop it from falling through the floor to the center of the earth . |
| 30 | plus it protects it , stops it from getting chipped . |