Example sentences of "stop it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her handwriting was distinctly visible so I rewound the film and stopped it to see what she had written . |
| 2 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 3 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 4 | They stopped it see , so I did n't gain anything out of it , me mates at work they made a collection for me in their way . |
| 5 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 6 | Only the General Election stopped it going through . |
| 7 | The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden . |
| 8 | They 'll filter out most of the pollen , and stop it getting into the lungs — very important for asthmatics . |
| 9 | Katy stop it does n't befit you . |
| 10 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 11 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 12 | stop it sticking to your lips yeah that 's right , |
| 13 | Well stop it doing that . |
| 14 | Using small bits of foam or anything that would stop it getting in there . |
| 15 | How do you stop it getting into the environment , because if you hose it down it will wash down into the drains wo n't it ? |
| 16 | Make sure there 's no air around that 'll stop it rusting . |
| 17 | Stop it Well they did stop it did n't they ? |
| 18 | But they could n't stop it flopping to 3.79 German marks — just a fraction above the lowest permitted level . |
| 19 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ You can stop it happening ? ’ |
| 21 | I 'm hoping in some way we can stop it happening again . |
| 22 | mm if he had it serviced regularly would it stop it do you think ? , still have to have the work done ? |
| 23 | And if it and if , if instead of putting the ordinary zinc and , and carbon battery in you put a NiCad battery in , it 'll stop it doing that . |
| 24 | Sickness , diarrhoea and some drugs may stop it working , and extra precautions must be used . |
| 25 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 26 | Nowadays there 's an enormous amount of information about us kept in computers , and there are laws which certainly sound as though they should stop it falling into unauthorized hands . |
| 27 | Then , all the weight in the world on the wing-tip would not stop it going over . |
| 28 | We 'll stop it going to that . |
| 29 | Stopping it requires not only rules but a strong moral code . |
| 30 | Stopping it getting pushed . |