Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have stopped [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is an answer to a prayer I had stopped praying , ’ Wilson said , ‘ and you , not God , have answered it . ’ |
| 2 | By mid- afternoon I have stopped expecting him , ever . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The pavements were wet when in under an hour they reached Karlovy Vary , but for the moment it had stopped raining . |
| 5 | It 's extraordinary — I know families who 've stopped speaking to each other . |
| 6 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 7 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 8 | Another firm which has stopped offering cover recently is Consolidated Marine & General , who provided the policy sold by the Co-op Bank . |
| 9 | One company which has stopped covering mortgage payments is Cornhill , which supplied mortgage policies to lenders Lloyds Bank . |
| 10 | we laid her on the step and I said to Elizabeth she 's stopped breathing ! |
| 11 | 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 . |