Example sentences of "stopped [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 2 | When Tallis rode up this narrow track she sent stones tumbling to the glittering water below her , and at a certain height she stopped to listen to the sound , recognizing it from a time in childhood , from a time when she had summoned images of another world , and Harry had called to her for help . |
| 3 | You stopped to talk to a friend and that was when I photographed you . ’ |
| 4 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 5 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 6 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 7 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 8 | Edouard was on horseback ; he stopped to look at the child , who was about eight or nine years old , and exceptionally beautiful . |
| 9 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 10 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 11 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 12 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 13 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 14 | As usual they walked past the toy shop and Pete stopped to look in the window . |
| 15 | The couple met when Heath stopped to help at an accident outside her home near Pontypridd , Mid-Glamorgan , the court heard . |
| 16 | When we did meet a dog , we always stopped to chat with the owner — if the dog would let us ! |
| 17 | The magazines were heavy , and Bobbie stopped to rest on the way home . |
| 18 | Moreover , when I actually stopped to think about the problem I became uncomfortably aware that it was very unlikely that I would be able to obtain such commitment . |
| 19 | On one occasion I stopped to pray before the statue of a saint at a street corner and noticed the lamp burning before it . |
| 20 | They came hurrying forward with obsequious smiles as Wilcox stopped to ask about a bin of components with ‘ WASTE ’ chalked on the side , or squatted beside a broken-down machine to discuss the cause with an oily-pawed mechanic . |
| 21 | He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains . |