Example sentences of "stop they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When they returned with one last load Bicker stopped them -from going out for more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If someone is hell-bent on controlling you through criticism you stop them by agreeing with what they say ( 'Yes , you 're quite right about the report' ) and then remaining quiet . |
| 6 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 7 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 8 | Or stop them from ticking . ’ |
| 9 | Erm do you erm drive after people and stop them from driving fast ? |
| 10 | Such risk-avoiding moves did not , however , stop them from continuing to deepen their involvement in the economy by other means . |
| 11 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 12 | Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying . |
| 13 | ‘ It is shocking that Unionists should attempt to use bullying tactics to instill fear into staff and stop them from voicing what they believed to be genuine concerns . ’ |
| 14 | You 're not , you 've got ta get people marked down and you got ta stop them from developing the play . |
| 15 | Hoomey saw an ally in Nails , to help him stop them from sending the horses back to the knacker 's . |
| 16 | With the blanket though he would , they would stop them from moving like , you know ? |
| 17 | you ca n't stop them from using everything in time |
| 18 | The detailed analyses they make of unconscious significations can stop them from considering any other kind of explanation . |
| 19 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 20 | They were not the illegal so we could n't stop them from delivering them . |
| 21 | Parents with problem children should stop them from taking canned drinks , coloured squash , sweets , biscuits and cake for a week . |
| 22 | He paused , frowning while staring ahead at some of the other riders , then he said , ‘ Excuse me — I must stop them from taking the wrong track . ’ |
| 23 | But that should not stop them from checking all the same . |
| 24 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 25 | Oh I was gon na say , if you could stop them from undoing that door , they would n't never get it out of there would they ? |
| 26 | The emergency services have said while the restrictions will make their response time slightly slower the humps will not stop them from carrying out their duties . |
| 27 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 28 | No , must n't stop them from working |
| 29 | It 'll stop them from crawling across , |
| 30 | And you can stop them from coming in as well if you 've got debts like , yeah . |