Example sentences of "she could [adv] stop [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She 's not frightened of anyone , I bet she could even stop Hitler .
2 She could not stop crying .
3 Tess now felt she could not stop things happening , and agreed passively to whatever Angel suggested .
4 She could n't stop Portia .
5 She could n't stop crying , and then the pain came back and nagged at her , till she held her hands to her lower belly .
6 Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying .
7 But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else .
8 If she could only stop eating .
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