Example sentences of "stopped and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat stopped and its owner announced , ‘ We 'll try here . |
| 2 | The German mortaring had suddenly stopped and the Brigade Major was standing out in the open talking to an Officer when , just as suddenly , the mortars started up again , sending their bombs swishing through the trees and sending the Brigade Major diving for cover . |
| 3 | After about an hour the shelling stopped and was followed by sporadic mortar and machine gun fire , the latter cutting up the ground along the front of the orchard facing the enemy positions . |
| 4 | By noon the rain had stopped and already the trees and grass in the orchard were almost dry as the hot sun shone through the leaves . |
| 5 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 6 | The shelling stopped and all appeared to be quiet ; even the sniping had ceased . |
| 7 | Tony stomped past , stopped and peered into the chasm , setting up a shot . |
| 8 | Ahead I can see that Odd-Knut has stopped and is off his sledge . |
| 9 | Neither Tyrrell driver stopped and , while the brown paint scheme did little to flatter the Honda-powered cars , it was reliability that mattered most , Stefano Modena and Satoru Nakajima taking fourth and fifth places . |
| 10 | The dog stopped and he was just about to congratulate himself on his authoritative and successful method of summoning her , when she made a plunging dart forward and seized the mass of cloth in her mouth . |
| 11 | ‘ Good , live firing 's just stopped and if the last few nights are anything to go by , we 'll be hearing from the battlegroup soon , once their own fitters have had a chance to check out the day 's casualties. , |
| 12 | The interference mysteriously stopped and through a clear line Frau Nordern 's voice boomed with all its usual authority , as if the ghost had miraculously become embodied with all the solidity of human flesh . |
| 13 | At the decaying gate-lodge the ambulance stopped and Vincent got out . |
| 14 | The watches were stopped and everyone held breath as the timekeepers turned for consultation with the track referee . |
| 15 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 16 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 17 | EXCEPT at the highest of America 's ski resorts , the lifts have stopped and the instructors have moved on to Argentina or New Zealand . |
| 18 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 19 | Tug 's arms stopped and began to whirl the other way . |
| 20 | Stopped and shook her head as though to clear it . |
| 21 | The car climbed the steep , twisting road at brake-squealing speed , until it reached the crest , where the fields stopped and the open moor began . |
| 22 | The technique used is much the same as that used in hospitals to find fractures in bones ; where the metal is broken the film is blackened by the X-rays which pass unhindered through the break ; where the metal is densest , more of the X-rays are stopped and the film remains pale . |
| 23 | All this was to seem academic by the Seventies when the boom finally stopped and the dream future of abundance and leisure popped like a rosy soap bubble . |
| 24 | Just as Emily was on the point of replying , the hammering stopped and Mr Zamoyski emerged from the entrance to his workshop . |
| 25 | For the first time the old man stopped and folded his hands on the end of the axe-handle . |
| 26 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 27 | Then this one guy stopped and parked his car just across the road . |
| 28 | At best , it could be agreed that some people defined the national interest one way and some defined it another way , and each side was equally well-meaning ; only some had pushed their patriotism beyond the law , so keen were they , while others had stopped and thought . |
| 29 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 30 | I asked , as the rain had stopped and I wished to see more of Killala Bay . |