Example sentences of "stop [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Asked why Mr Clinton appeared to have stopped using the word ‘ sacrifice ’ and started using the word ‘ contribute ’ to describe what he would ask of Americans in his plan , Ms Myers said : ‘ The problem with the word sacrifice is that it implies nobody gets anything out of it . ’ |
| 3 | Jazz and Hoomey had stopped using the bus to and from school and ran together , fortunately down hill all the way there when they were always late . |
| 4 | Mama had stopped using the notebook when she 'd become too ill for them to have any more happy times together . |
| 5 | Ember stopped fastening the seals on her utility-webbing . |
| 6 | That was the reason we that was when we stopped using the turtle stuff . |
| 7 | Edward stopped using the title and arms of France for eight years , and only resumed them when war began again after Charles V had taken advantage of the failure to carry out the renunciation clauses and heard appeals in his court from discontented subjects of the Black Prince in Aquitaine . |
| 8 | I stopped using the stack reinforcement I used behind my amplifier because my amps are very small . |
| 9 | I did get a bit paranoid for a few months , stopped using the tube . |
| 10 | The children did n't talk about the kidnapping , but kept glancing out of the windows and stopped trusting the adults who looked after them . |
| 11 | I feel because of that , they 've allowed the centre to be run down , stopped building the city and moved everything out to the suburbs . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ It 's time Labour stopped knocking the Memorial Hospital . |
| 13 | To me , the content was so uninteresting that I stopped opening the cover , so that the numerous approaches offering me overpriced advertising space were always rejected . |
| 14 | they not only lost the services of Ethel but because Mangon stopped booking the Girls , all 160 jobs were lost . |
| 15 | Philip stopped twisting the wire . |
| 16 | They heard and then stopped heading the wind breathing in the trees overhead and the stream rustling in the valley . |
| 17 | In February the Council stopped paying the £108,000- a-year grant to the ABA because of growing concern over the stability of the organisation . |
| 18 | FRCN Kaduna took this argument a step further and in 1981 stopped reporting the activities of the two expelled governors or their supporters except when these were strictly official and non-political . |
| 19 | He stopped wearing the goggles and was struck and blinded in one eye by a piece of metal . |
| 20 | They also stopped switching the jumpers around , allowing Bayfield , in particular , a bit of time to settle . |
| 21 | For a single moment , Charlotte stopped suckling the child . |
| 22 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 23 | What happened was this : Micky stopped getting the lines , turned round in confusion , then presumably saw someone in the wings pointing a gun at him . |
| 24 | ‘ I stopped doing the horse charts after my partner died . |
| 25 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 26 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 27 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 28 | We stopped taking the Magnet and the Gem and the Boy 's Own Paper . |
| 29 | Since I stopped taking the chlorambucil , the lumps are beginning to return , which is just as well . |
| 30 | Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby . |