Example sentences of "stopped and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two cyclists eventually stopped and went off to raise the alarm . |
| 2 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 3 | The day before , while driving his car , he had been stopped and charged with some trivial traffic offence . |
| 4 | ‘ Never mind , I 'll find somewhere , ’ I said , and when the crew bus , after a short drive , stopped and disgorged its passengers , I took my grip and vanished on foot and , after asking directions , made a homing line to where no one else was staying . |
| 5 | As I approached she began to smile but then stopped and screamed ‘ How can you f … ing live with yourself ? ’ and stormed off . |
| 6 | Aside from shift workers , which groups of people are disproportionately liable to be stopped and questioned by the police ? |
| 7 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 8 | The pair in fact decided to work together after Merton added a joke to a skit of Clary 's a few years ago : a man is returning from a holiday in Morocco , and is stopped and questioned by Moroccan customs . |
| 9 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 10 | Stopped and had a cup of tea . |
| 11 | His arms slid upwards , until his hair-roughened , powerful forearms stopped and crossed just beneath her breasts . |
| 12 | He 's been stopped and told not to write to us . |
| 13 | He looked at Owen , stopped and stretched out his hand . |
| 14 | Therese was much sought ; one time the other couples stopped and fell back , and she and her partner , a slight man with a pock-marked face , received a solemn ovation . |
| 15 | A man thrust past , dragging another , and , seeing the King , stopped and lifted his axe , hatred in his face . |
| 16 | All those ladies in Burberry raincoats standing , clipboards poised , on the wind-swept corners of shopping malls ; all those hundreds of thousands of electors stopped and questioned ; all that ‘ analysis ’ and number crunching ; all those column centimetres filled with prognostication ; all that sound and fury ; all that nothing . |
| 17 | George Scott , Winston 's brother , has been arrested three times in the last three months , and Mark Braithwaite 's brother Gregory is stopped and questioned constantly . |
| 18 | Police are now analysing the results of a 72 hour road check in which 500 motorists in the Sharpness area were stopped and questioned . |
| 19 | I would also like to back up Susan Cooper 's letter in the November issue of Tennis World entitled Steffi OK because when I was at Brighton , Steffi actually stopped and posed in the street to have her picture taken with me , and also Steffi signed every autograph everyday without fail , outside and inside so I think this proves that Steffi is the best at recognising her fans , no matter what it takes . |
| 20 | A wolf bounded into the place of tents , stopped and straightened like a man . |
| 21 | I think most conductors would have stopped and made a song and dance . |
| 22 | They would willingly have stopped and made their camp before sundown but Marian was determined to reach the Waste . |
| 23 | As we lurched up the soaking , slimy boulders towards it , like a team of wet-look mime artists walking against the wind , one of our party stopped and said , ‘ Let's go back . ’ |
| 24 | Suddenly his companion stopped and said : ‘ There ’ s a light in the ruins . |
| 25 | SHE was going into Newcastle and walking towards the station entrance when a woman stopped and said : ‘ Mrs Jones ? |
| 26 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 27 | Athelstan suddenly remembered the bear , stopped and walked back to where the animal sat chained in the corner where curtain wall met Bell Tower . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A woman stopped and got out of her car in an unlit area at about 6:35pm on Thursday in response to flashing headlights on a white or light-coloured van behind her . |
| 30 | Vive l'Impératrice ! ’ , until at one moment the Emperor stopped and addressed himself to those nearest saying courteously : ‘ If you want to please your Emperor , I would ask you to cry ‘ Vive la Reine ’ . ’ |