Example sentences of "stopped at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony stopped at a slit trench . |
| 2 | We stopped at a gap in the hedge as the road swung round to the left . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 5 | They stopped at a roadside café for something to eat and were wished bon appetit , without a trace of sarcasm , by the lorry drivers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 9 | They stopped at a body which had n't been identified . |
| 10 | Some while later they stopped at a large setting loom , manned by five men ‘ beating up ’ , as Natasha explained , the chenille fur . |
| 11 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 12 | She stopped at a corner-shop ( Bain 's sweet-shop ) . |
| 13 | He stopped at a little roadside inn and found inside an old woman at work with a spinning wheel , like ‘ a dark silhouette out of a fairy tale ’ , and beyond her , through the window , the clear sky and a path through the delicate green , and geese pecking in the grass . |
| 14 | Driving home one night at about 11 o'clock , through a fairly rough area , I stopped at a zebra crossing . |
| 15 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 16 | Finally we stopped at a machine knitting company and I realised what she was shopping for . |
| 17 | Ginny stopped at a zebra crossing in Fulham Palace Road . |
| 18 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They stopped at a Motta bar . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At midday we stopped at a rest-house , a square concrete building by the roadside , the only structure we had seen since leaving Cairo , four hours before . |
| 23 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
| 24 | Out in the country again , they walked down several small roads until finally they stopped at a house surrounded by a high wall . |
| 25 | He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again . |
| 26 | Just then he stopped at a place where a dog had dug a hole in the ground . |
| 27 | They stopped at a red light . |
| 28 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They stopped at a launderette . |