Example sentences of "[pron] have stopped [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 2 | Mother-of-four Dawn adds , ‘ Kim and I had a cry together and I told her that just because I loved Colin , it did n't mean I 'd stopped loving her . ’ |
| 3 | I loved him , I 'd stopped loving you . |
| 4 | I did n't mean it to sound like that — that I 'd stopped loving you and was falling again . ’ |
| 5 | If I was too embarrassed , too full of shame to go and see them , it was n't just my fault ; it was theirs too , because of the way they 'd brought me up ( God , I thought I 'd stopped using that excuse when I left Lochgair Primary School ) . |
| 6 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 7 | I was running up an unauthorised overdraft , too ; I 'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble . |
| 8 | Now I 'd stopped whispering , the boat was hollow and frightening again . |
| 9 | By the end of three weeks , I had stopped dabbling with metaphors from the rigged wrestling match . |
| 10 | I did not own such a garment ; I had stopped wearing shorts when I left school , determined never again to be taken for a ‘ lad ’ . |
| 11 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 12 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 13 | I had stopped running . |
| 14 | Breathing was even more difficult now that I had stopped running , and I was racked by bouts of coughing . |
| 15 | ‘ It is an answer to a prayer I had stopped praying , ’ Wilson said , ‘ and you , not God , have answered it . ’ |
| 16 | The only thing single women do on the ads is eat chocolate or feed the cat , so I 've stopped watching : it 's too depressing . |
| 17 | I 've stopped thinking about that part of the future , I 've stopped worrying about her . |
| 18 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've stopped eating meat myself , ’ I told him . |
| 20 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 21 | But the point is , I 've stopped taking it … |
| 22 | As Betty explained : ‘ We 'll still be visiting a lot , particularly once I 've stopped working , but in the home she will have the company and the care that quite honestly is beyond us now . |
| 23 | You can actually get stronger as you go along on all the benefits so instead of selling one benefit , you could sell them a multitude of benefits because it means that if you 're with a customer two hours or two and a half hours , instead of spending ninety percent of the time , chatting along , you , you 'll not argue about , you follow me , I 've stopped selling benefits , but I used to sell them brillian brilliantly , in other words you get , gives you a bit of meat |
| 24 | At least I 've stopped going to church . |
| 25 | I 'll ring her when I 've stopped talking to you , she 'll be so relieved . |
| 26 | Ten seconds in which someone had stopped breathing . |
| 27 | And I have stopped taking things for granted . |
| 28 | By mid- afternoon I have stopped expecting him , ever . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I have had so many disappointments , so many setbacks , that I have stopped setting myself targets . |
| 30 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |