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Example sentences of "stop [verb] to " in BNC.

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1	Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones .
2	I stopped to listen to him during rehearsal .
3	When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help .
4	Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God .
5	I stopped listening to Mudhoney after ‘ This Gift ’ , the follow-up to their still superior ‘ Superfuzz Bigmuff ’ which failed to deliver anything as immediately impressive .
6	Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to .
7	I stopped listening to Mavis and sat staring at Toby .
8	I stopped listening to Jake Rosso 's records , and took his pictures off my bedroom wall .
9	I could hear foreign voices raised in the kitchen and stopped listening to my companions .
10	( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . )
11	We sometimes met her in the street on her way from classes , and she always stopped to talk to us .
12	Mrs Frizzell eased herself — it could not be said that she exactly pushed — through the crowd so that she was next to Mrs Hnatiuk , while Maxie stopped to talk to clients .
13	Sometimes , the women stopped to talk to somebody , but he could not understand their words .
14	During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company .
15	Clusters with prams on pavements stopped to talk to groups coming the other way .
16	You stopped to talk to a friend and that was when I photographed you . ’
17	As Mum turned the trolley into the breakfast cereal aisle she saw Linda Paterson 's Mum and stopped to talk to her .
18	You know comrades , it 's time we stopped pretending to be something we 're not .
19	‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’
20	That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him .
21	Scottish scholars stopped going to the English universities ; the veneer of English influence on Scottish law and judicial practice was torn away .
22	But I stopped going to church around 1983 .
23	I stopped going to parties , stopped drinking and threw myself into the regime of Ron 's hard training schedules .
24	I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels .
25	We stopped going to GLF , and to mixed gay discos and on mixed demos .
26	I stopped going to school when I was thirteen getting on fourteen , and it was then that I started getting into trouble , running away from home and thieving .
27	Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement .
28	And any I stopped going to Weightwatchers .
29	But there 's quite a few stopped going to the club with women not being well and their legs bad and
30	Even if the couple got to the city before war began , it was unlikely that they would get out before the trains stopped running to the Channel ports .