Example sentences of "stopped at [art] [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 | The conversation about oxtail had made her realise how hungry she was and she stopped at a delicatessen shop on the way home and bought a pizza . |
| 7 | To my delight , we stopped at a bothy , a long white cabin with a small door in the middle , deep-set windows and a roof of orange thatch . |
| 8 | On the way back we stopped at a pub where Edward regaled us , and disturbed the landlord , with hilarious anecdotes of raffish nights around Fitzrovia as a young man . |
| 9 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 10 | Driving home one night at about 11 o'clock , through a fairly rough area , I stopped at a zebra crossing . |
| 11 | Ginny stopped at a zebra crossing in Fulham Palace Road . |
| 12 | We stopped at a tavern and , before we ate our evening meal , Benjamin took me up to our flea-infested chamber . |
| 13 | Finally we stopped at a machine knitting company and I realised what she was shopping for . |
| 14 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 15 | They stopped at a Motta bar . |
| 16 | Tony stopped at a slit trench . |
| 17 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 18 | At last we stopped at a door . |
| 19 | I stopped at a stationer 's and ordered two reams of Devon Valley Thin , two black ribbons to fit Toby 's portable , and a box of the best carbon papers . |
| 20 | He stopped at a gate , and in large red letters on the middle bar of the gate he painted some words from the Bible : |
| 21 | They stopped at a body which had n't been identified . |
| 22 | They stopped at a launderette . |
| 23 | We stopped at a shop and bought apples and beer , which we guzzled on the march , assault rifles and ammunition belts swinging round our necks as we used our hands to prise the tops off the beer bottles . |
| 24 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 25 | Before clearing the suburbs to the west Patrick stopped at a café so that they could have a quick breakfast of delicious brioches and excellent coffee . |
| 26 | Jim stopped at a café on the road side . |
| 27 | It was hot , dusty work checking endless fencing and huge flocks of sheep ; so every now and then they stopped at a trough at one of the wells , so that Jester could drink and his owner could splash his face and arms in the water . |
| 28 | They stopped at a roadside café for something to eat and were wished bon appetit , without a trace of sarcasm , by the lorry drivers . |
| 29 | She stopped at a corner-shop ( Bain 's sweet-shop ) . |
| 30 | She stopped at a newsstand . |