Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to stop at the " in BNC.

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1 Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers .
2 In a recent incident a vehicle failed to stop at the junction and damaged Curwen House the building on Gubberford Lane almost opposite the end of Tithe Barn Lane .
3 A vehicle volunteering to stop at the zebra crossing can only stop one of the two lanes , with no control over the other .
4 A car skidded into the hedge to avoid it ; another lorry managed to stop at the end of four long streaks of scorched rubber on the wet road .
5 Now number thirty the thought occurred to me , occurred , occurred , or the accident occurred when the lorry failed to stop at the traffic lights
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