Example sentences of "she [modal v] [adv] stop [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not stop crying . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If she could only stop eating . |
| 6 | A court has heard that a father battered his baby daughter to death because she would n't stop crying . |