Example sentences of "stop at every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans showed over forty rooms and vestibules on four elevations , with two staircases , two lifts that stopped at every floor , hot and cold running water in all five bathrooms , water closets that flushed , electric light , a cellar , a garage and a garden . |
| 2 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 3 | The train was a slow one that stopped at every station and I was eventually discovered , clutching my red handbag and Arthur , in Carlisle where the train terminated . |
| 4 | And they normally used the ‘ mixed ’ trains , which , since they stopped at every station and carried all manner of freight as well as third- and fourth-class carriages , were the ones which were most likely to be inordinately late . |
| 5 | Getting more and more desperate , Perdita stopped at every house and scoured every field . |
| 6 | Next time you walk down the High Street in your home town , or the main shopping street of your region 's biggest city , stop at every telephone box you see . |
| 7 | stop at every station could n't we ? |
| 8 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 9 | So , ’ he added sweetly , ‘ we shall stop at every tavern and ale house along the road . |
| 10 | Before slack tide the police launch went down the river , stopping at every boat to give fair warning . |
| 11 | ‘ It goes from side to side , stopping at every landing point so you 'll have a good — and cheap — view of all the buildings along the canal . ’ |
| 12 | Elaine chatted incessantly on the journey , oblivious to James 's entreaties to shut up , and Stephen 's impatience when she insisted on stopping at every plantation house — ‘ Just to have a peek . ’ |
| 13 | She read some verses and not others , understood some lines and not others , and stopped at every mention of angels or children or weeping or suffering . |
| 14 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |