Example sentences of "[pron] stop for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 2 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 3 | I stopped for a bite at an eating-place that was in a huge hove-bubble , drifting slowly about the roof-tops along one of the main spiral streets intersecting the city centre . |
| 4 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 5 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 6 | It got incredibly painful , and in bed at night I could hear a munching sound , definitely coming from me , which stopped for a bit if I touched the swelling . |
| 7 | She stopped for a moment and took a deep breath before checking the next crate . |
| 8 | She stopped for a second to point something out to the Doctor . |
| 9 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 10 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 11 | She stopped for a moment , as if the basket were overburdening her , and put it down . |
| 12 | She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house . |
| 13 | But on the way she noticed a crowd listening to a preacher and she stopped for a while to join them . |
| 14 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 15 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 16 | She stopped for a moment to get her bearings . |
| 17 | She stopped for a minute and looked out at the fields . |
| 18 | She stopped for a moment . |
| 19 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 20 | She stopped for a moment and eyed Sophie thoughtfully . |
| 21 | ABOVE If you stop for a while , by all means allow your dog to join you in the front of the car . |
| 22 | Will you , shall you stop for an e stop for the evening ? |
| 23 | When we stopped for a picnic lunch we were pestered by a cheeky jackdaw which squabbled with seagulls for its share in the scraps of our sandwiches . |
| 24 | We stopped for a breather at Porthmelgan , a small sheltered beach tucked in on the south of the headland , before starting down the hill to look at the outline of St David 's Head with its craggy 500 million year old rocks . |
| 25 | Before reaching the summit we stopped for a snack at Dock Tarn , sure one of the most underestimated spots in the Lakes . |
| 26 | Mid-way , after a long , hard time , we stopped for a rest — at least , as much of a rest as you can get standing in knee-deep water unable to put down your rucsac . |
| 27 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
| 28 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 29 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 30 | We stopped for a snack and were introduced to gorp ( good old raisins and peanuts ) , rather like a trail mix for energy . |