Example sentences of "stopped [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 2 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 3 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 4 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 5 | He stopped buying them for her when they got married . |
| 6 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 7 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 8 | People stopped giving it to them . |
| 9 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 10 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |