Example sentences of "stop [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 3 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 4 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 5 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 6 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 7 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 8 | ‘ We got the two goals back , but you have to stop them at the other end as well . |
| 9 | to stop them at the moment . |
| 10 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |