Example sentences of "she [verb] stopped [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later , she 'd stopped thinking in those precise terms , and was trying to tell herself he 'd been detained . |
| 2 | She 'd stopped looking at him . |
| 3 | She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more . |
| 4 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 5 | She 'd stopped giggling and she said , ‘ Tell me all . ’ |
| 6 | He had a bike which she 'd stopped letting him use because it had become dangerous . |
| 7 | And she had stopped eating altogether . |
| 8 | She had stopped undertaking her usual tasks within the home , was eating very little and had taken to her bed a few days previously and had not re-emerged . |
| 9 | She had stopped loving her daughter years ago . |
| 10 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 11 | He had a limited vocabulary and she had stopped telling him not to be blasphemous twenty years ago . |
| 12 | Moreover , since Sparta depended on personal service from her allies , she had to consult them constantly , whereas Athens had a freer hand , because she had stopped holding congresses of her allies well before the beginning of the war . |
| 13 | She had heard Ben tell her it was about time , too , but almost too late ; that was when she had stopped pushing the hand-cart and bought Laddie and the flat-cart . |
| 14 | She had stopped trying to make him like her ; that was a relief . |
| 15 | Sara Jones , 49 , said the series , written by Lynda La Plante and which shows ex-Paratroopers struggling as civilians , left her so angry she had stopped watching it . |
| 16 | By the 1930s she had stopped dancing in the line ; there was hardly time in her schedule , but she and her sister Mabel would sometimes perform a fan dance duet in cine-variety bills . |
| 17 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 18 | Now she had stopped denying her love for Tyler . |
| 19 | Latterly , she had stopped saying that she did n't believe in God . |
| 20 | She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship . |
| 21 | She had stopped giving a damn about Jake years ago . |
| 22 | And he noticed that she had stopped scowling . |
| 23 | At least , Mrs Huntley thought hopefully , she had stopped wondering , unbecomingly and stridently , how her uncle could have been fooled by Angela Morgan . |
| 24 | She had stopped crying when her mother hit her , partly out of pride , but partly out of spite because she always felt her tears gave her mother pleasure . |
| 25 | Some nights he would stand by Eleanor 's cot , convinced she had stopped breathing , and do nothing . |
| 26 | She had stopped breathing . |
| 27 | She had stopped putting her money in the machine with the silver crane . |
| 28 | Besides , now that she had stopped walking she did n't seem to be able to stop herself from shivering . |
| 29 | He glanced across at her : she had stopped playing and was watching them , and the resemblance of her to Martha was so strong that all the old bitterness and resentment flooded suddenly back . |
| 30 | we laid her on the step and I said to Elizabeth she 's stopped breathing ! |