Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] stop i " in BNC.
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1 | Trained mind I might be supposed to have , but this did not stop me from losing my clothing coupons . |
2 | I did not know where I was , but that did not stop me saying , ‘ I 'm here ’ . |
3 | It did n't stop me going on , but it stopped him . |
4 | Though do n't you go thinking , just because a fellow do n't get airborne , did n't stop me liking him . |
5 | ‘ It did n't stop me enjoying it , ’ she said . |
6 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
7 | That did n't stop me , man — I was playing that thing for two years . ’ |
8 | ‘ Ineptitude did n't stop me becoming an asshole doctor ! ’ |
9 | She did n't stop me talking , but neither did she reply or make any comment on what I had to say . |
10 | But it still did n't stop me having a perfectly valid opinion on the parlous state of contemporary kits . |
11 | Of course I was far too small , and they 'd have swum away from me in fright anyway , but that did n't stop me trying on occasion . |
12 | That did n't stop me from thinking bitterly that he 'd got away scot-free . |
13 | I 've never talked so much in my life and they were interested , they were , I got all sorts of things in , Britannicus and Henry VIII and The Broken Heart and The Winter 's Tale and feminine endings and they did n't stop me , they said go on — oh and Satan 's speech to Eve in the garden — I was in a place of my own — oh glory . " |
14 | But that did n't stop me going back to it . |
15 | I 've tried that chewing gum you get but it still did n't stop me . |
16 | It was hardly surprising that this was the case , and it did n't stop me from giving interviews , but they seemed so far removed from what we were actually trying to do . |
17 | But it did n't stop me sleeping with him . |
18 | She never encouraged me , but she did n't stop me . |
19 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
20 | ‘ You did run away , ’ he muttered , ‘ but that did n't stop me needing you . ’ |
21 | ‘ Anyway , he did n't say much but that did n't stop me , and in the end I got out and left him there . ’ |
22 | But it did n't stop me feeling betrayed . |
23 | You could always say , oh well er they did n't stop me and you claim about half a million hey that 's not bad drop something on your foot and say |
24 | You did n't stop me trying . |
25 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |