Example sentences of "not stop him " in BNC.

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1 Yet this does not stop him being blunt about Rhoda the Rhino — otherwise known as Margaret Thatcher
2 Maybe Johnson was paranoid ; that does not stop him being correct .
3 In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall .
4 Paisley was back in prison , this time for his part in the Armagh demonstrations , but that did not stop him characterizing the Cameron Commission as a betrayal of the Ulster people to the rebels .
5 The fact that Peter heard God 's voice about one thing does not stop him arguing with Jesus about the next , namely Jesus ' intention to go to the cross .
6 This might not stop him reacting still more strongly in favour of theft , from the viewpoints of all who as an anarchist he believes to suffer from the institution of private property ; but otherwise he has to put the danger on the same side of the scales as the slight loss to the old relative , against the great gain to himself .
7 If he wants to go , I can not stop him . ’
8 His prime minister , Mr Mitsotakis , did not stop him , either because he did not know what Mr Samaras was about to do or because he thought he could fudge the issue .
9 Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote .
10 She could not stop him .
11 Alexander 's interests and those of Athens were thus opposed ( which did not stop him from minting copiously in coinage designed for easy trade with Athens ) , and the opposition was inherited by every Macedonian king till Philip , who ended it by seizing Amphipolis for good .
12 Thus , for example , Diego Rivera 's membership of the Communist party did not stop him from painting radical murals on the walls of government buildings .
13 Innocent III spent some months outside Rome , but this did not stop him doing justice .
14 My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it .
15 Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs .
16 When she saw that she could not stop him she tried another tack .
17 But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that .
18 She knew that if he took her now , against this wall , she would not stop him .
19 Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’
20 The lord of Parfois was a law to himself ; if he ever did discover where Master Harry lay buried , the Severn would not stop him from pursuing the dead with his living and virulent hatred , the Welsh border would be no bar to him , even the sanctity of the church would not restrain him .
21 I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent .
22 Could n't stop him .
23 He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met .
24 The man approached and Wexford could n't stop him .
25 The amateurishness of Will Hay does n't stop him winning over some Nazis , giving the others a good lesson in the English way of doing things , and bringing home their secret weapon in The Goose Steps Out ( 1942 ) .
26 You know we ca n't stop him wandering .
27 ‘ I could n't stop him , madam … ’
28 It did n't stop him from wanting to ask questions but from now on he would have to find out the answers himself .
29 But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal .
30 I could n't stop him and I was so frightened that horse , machine and me were going over that I jumped off .
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