Example sentences of "stopped at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick Papp got more than he bargained for when he stopped at Strathford 's garage in East Kilbride a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | When the bus stopped at Ribeira Brava for ten minutes , all the Madeirans got out and many , including the bus driver , crossed the road to the bar for a drink . |
| 3 | He seemed to have cracked bones complaining all over his body , and when they stopped at night he ate , stayed by Madra for a while , and usually fell asleep beside her . |
| 4 | We stopped at Trondheim and Bodø , and then at Bardufoss . |
| 5 | They stopped at Melrose and arrived in Earlston the following morning . |
| 6 | But he was still not suffering from his hypmaniacal attack — he now believed the Mafia were after him — and when the ambulance stopped at Tottenham Court Road , a quarter of a mile away , he leapt out and set off again naked down the street . |
| 7 | But erm er the on that ship I remember we stopped at Queenstown . |
| 8 | Every weekday afternoon in termtime , the school bus from Woodborough stopped at Loxford village green and decanted nine children . |
| 9 | " I just stopped at home . " |
| 10 | They stopped at Cala de San Vicente and admired the pinewoods to the south and the inviting sandy beach below . |
| 11 | Passengers on the 5.18pm train from Waterloo in London to Alton , Hampshire , were enraged when it stopped at Woking , Surrey , and the driver said it would not go further . |
| 12 | We stopped at lunch time and had a traditional meal with our driver who then took us back on our way . |
| 13 | Bidding for this ( mostly down the ‘ phone ) stopped at £320,000 , way short of the catalogue estimate of £450,000–£550,000 , and the lot was withdrawn . |
| 14 | Trains from Manchester to Chester stopped at Knutsford while Chester to Manchester trains stopped at Altrincham with a bus service running from Altrincham to Northwich . |
| 15 | And then he , he got on the road and he , we usually took , he had to run it er not more than twenty five miles and hour , and er you had to run it , we , we stopped at Preston if we could get there . |
| 16 | When the carriage stopped at Langley Dene , the butler seemed more deferential as he opened the door and Mrs Langley , instead of merely rising from her chair , came half way across the drawing-room to welcome Alexandra . |
| 17 | She stopped at Barbs 's house and pushed open the gate . |
| 18 | In their earlier period , those who preferred the inevitability of gradualness blamed him — as they did Marx — for the inadequacy of an economic theory which stopped at Ricardo ; and for proposing an instant change to a national and co-operative structure for industry which would , they considered , in the event have failed to abolish competition and Capitalism , and would have left the class structure of society unchanged except perhaps in detail . |
| 19 | He had no better luck when he went to Hollywood in the Seventies and attempted ( unsuccessfully ) to produce a number of intriguing projects , including a cinema version of Ian Gibson 's book on the death of Garca Lorca , to have been directed by Francesco Rosi , director of Christ Stopped at Eboli . |
| 20 | Matera , the provincial capital , is an extraordinary town immortalised in Levi 's famous novel , ‘ Christ Stopped at Eboli ’ . |
| 21 | They stopped at Antwerp where one evening they got so drunk in a bar that when Minton decided to return to the hotel , Norman followed him as he doubted whether he would find his way . |
| 22 | On the passage home , they stopped at St Helena in October and , after discussion with Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] , who had observed the transit there , Dixon returned temporarily to the Cape with Maskelyne 's clock to carry out gravity experiments . |
| 23 | Oh , she said , well well I stopped at number two . |
| 24 | I remember when I was cycling through Normandy and along the Loire valley a couple of years back , I stopped at Chartres and went into the cathedral . |
| 25 | On the way back we stopped at Horstead Keynes to look at the Carriage and Wagon Dept . |
| 26 | ‘ I believe we 're the only ones left , ’ said Jed as they stopped at East Acton , a rather dark little station that looked as if it might be out in the country . |
| 27 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 28 | We stopped at Newmarket briefly . |
| 29 | Travellers on the Canadian Airlines flight from Vancouver to London , which stopped at Edmonton , said the undergraduates : |
| 30 | On February 15th , 1835 , en route to the west country he stopped at Alresford , was seized by paralysis and died . |