Example sentences of "stop [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a car was stopped for speeding or ‘ flying low ’ , and upon returning to the police vehicle the constable related the following considerations which influenced his assessment : |
| 2 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 3 | ‘ If you carry on like this for much longer , you 'll soon be stopped for speeding , ’ Jessamy pointed out , with some satisfaction . |
| 4 | I was stopped for speeding when I was 15 miles over the limit . |
| 5 | About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown . |
| 6 | Carl Reilly was stopped after having a few too many at a business lunch . |
| 7 | Patrick Meurdesoif , 42 , was stopped after weaving in and out of rush hour traffic in his 38-ton tanker on the M6 near West Bromwich , West Midlands , town magistrates heard . |
| 8 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 9 | Three times she stopped before reaching Charing Cross , abruptly breaking the current of pedestrians so people stepped around her , glancing , while she said , ‘ No … ’ and turned back from where she had come , only to turn again , move on . |
| 10 | He stopped before describing himself , if , indeed , he had been going to do so . |
| 11 | Sitting beside Tweed , she stopped before opening the map and looked at him . |
| 12 | He stopped on seeing the van across the road and then Brenda . |
| 13 | The first shop we stopped at gave Dad an order right away , providing the wood was dry and clean . |
| 14 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 15 | If this running light is to emulate the movement of a ball along a pitch , from the bowler 's end represented by D1 to the wicket represented by D10 , the l.e.d.s must light in the correct order and necessarily stop on reaching D10 , in spite of the fact that the clock pulses are continually applied . |
| 16 | Many studies stop at demonstrating double dissociations . |
| 17 | To s stop from sucking up |
| 18 | The flight was very bumpy indeed , and we really wondered whether we would make it to Chengchow , where we had to make a half-hour stop before continuing our journey . |
| 19 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 20 | Access will be the issue of the 90s and freedom to use rivers does n't just stop at getting onto the rivers . |
| 21 | Backed by the capacity and reputation for quality and service of Sigma , Aldrich and Fluka , SAF 's commitment to its customers does n't stop at supplying the product . |
| 22 | But it did n't stop at singing . |
| 23 | He does not stop at saying so . |
| 24 | Note that the amber light shall convey the prohibition that vehicular traffic shall not proceed beyond the stop line etc. , except in the case of any vehicle which , when the amber light is first shown , is so close to the said line and signal that it can not safely be stopped before passing the line or signal . |
| 25 | Because I ca n't believe if you come in the off peak periods there really are n't that many people here erm I ca n't believe that the phone is so busy that that we 're actually being stopped in making from reservations . |
| 26 | One particular station , at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania , had actually been officially stopped from operating after the control room staff were found to be falling asleep on the job . |
| 27 | Since the customer was therefore stopped from asserting his ownership , the finance company obtained good title when it bought the van from the dealer . |
| 28 | And he got you into the coach by putting his toe in your backside , and he was only stopped from horsewhipping you by Mama 's gentle persuasion . |
| 29 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 30 | There are those who do indeed believe ( as we have seen , with some justification in terms of legal precedent ) that matters have already gone too far in the direction of a United States of Europe for the process to be stopped from reaching its federal point of destination . |