Example sentences of "stop [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that man 's , there is a tiny little ma , well he stopped me going out with Dorothy . |
| 2 | Your friends , your parents , your school , your peers , they all try and stop you going out into left field . |
| 3 | But he added : ‘ I do n't believe anything need stop you coming out as a pop star . |
| 4 | ‘ Stop 'em selling out to Swire Sugden , ’ Otley said . |
| 5 | Those people with dogs in that sort of situation are very welcome to walk through the playing field and then out the other side and away , I would n't stop them going over from that entrance to the to the top entrance . |
| 6 | But that did n't stop me going back to it . |
| 7 | It did n't stop her lashing out at him with her teeth and back legs as he unsaddled her , but he felt he was making progress and , the next day , stick and balling her he found she was a natural . |
| 8 | But free or not , no one should stop her going off with Midnight anywhere . |
| 9 | Glastonbury was certainly upset , although that did n't stop him nodding off on several occasions ; Fagg was enraged — the term ‘ bloody fellow ’ came up frequently ; Fishbane was considered ; the Commander spluttered a lot and Chatterton said very little except to draw on his memory of some committee problem that had arisen in 1964 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A fellow whose hip operation and general physical incapacity does n't stop him going off to gaming-houses gets my vote , even if he does have a tendency to gurn on endlessly about obscure dates in the past of no interest to anyone . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We would object to gates , which could stop us getting out to sea as quickly as we might like , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 14 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 15 | If only to stop me dashing round to the newsagent every day to ask if it is in yet around the time due , I shall have to take out an MKM subscription and devote more of my energies to learning how . |
| 16 | We would need to control enough in Britain to stop them flying off into Europe . |
| 17 | The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots . |
| 18 | Weights were placed at all the corners of the sketches to stop them springing back into tight rolls . |
| 19 | She wanted desperately to catch hold of his arm , to stop him walking out of her life . |
| 20 | I decided I 'd better go to stop him going on about it . |
| 21 | I had to stop him going out on deck . |
| 22 | To stop her going on at me I said , " No , I 'm not . " |
| 23 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 24 | It is a good idea to put a tiny piece of Blu Tack beneath the strip at both ends to stop it slipping out of place . |
| 25 | She returned indoors to fetch stout shoes and anorak , tied a headscarf over her bobbed brown hair to stop it flying about in the wind , and set off down the lane . |
| 26 | Unless it is prodded and pulled by the government , what is to stop it rolling over into a more comfortable position ? |
| 27 | Goreng had given us two guards — whether to protect us or to stop us getting up to mischief I 'm not sure : maybe both . |
| 28 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 29 | I could see what stops them falling in on top of each other . ’ |
| 30 | He stops it coming out of his mouth . |