Example sentences of "stop [pron] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How stop myself swinging down through the branches to help unload her little car ? |
| 2 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 3 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 4 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 5 | She returned indoors to fetch stout shoes and anorak , tied a headscarf over her bobbed brown hair to stop it flying about in the wind , and set off down the lane . |
| 6 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |