Example sentences of "[vb infin] stopped [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | I believe I could have stopped him . |
| 3 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 4 | Wild beasts would not have stopped him . |
| 5 | If this had not happened nothing could have stopped him and the whole party would have been dragged down after him . |
| 6 | If he were in the very act of cutting his own throat , how could Harry have stopped him ? |
| 7 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 8 | He left her so abruptly that she could not have stopped him even if she had known what to say . |
| 9 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 10 | The truth might have stopped him despising her , but it had n't put an end to desire . |
| 11 | If he 'd met someone and wanted to be unfaithful , he would have found an opportunity and I could n't have stopped him . |
| 12 | Theodora wondered what they should have stopped him doing . |
| 13 | But we 'd have stopped him , the proper way . |
| 14 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 15 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 16 | Rogers believes earlier intervention focusing on her glue sniffing could have stopped her becoming a persistent offender . |
| 17 | Roman 's interruption held a note of such ferocious anger that in any other circumstances it would have stopped her in her tracks . |
| 18 | In December , Mr May operated , but was only able to remove 70pc of the tumour , as to remove anymore would have stopped her breathing completely . |
| 19 | Well I 'd have stopped her ! |
| 20 | Wild beasts would not have stopped me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd have stopped me , ’ he went on more quietly . |
| 22 | Whereas before the insecurity would have been there , I suppose , that might have stopped me trying things . |
| 23 | ‘ Because you might have stopped me . |
| 24 | Nothing could have stopped me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , you should have stopped me . |
| 26 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 27 | If Croats and Serbs are allowed to slaughter Muslims and steal their land unchallenged , the injustice will , or at least should , weigh upon the conscience of all who might have stopped them . |
| 28 | Could it have stopped them getting this bad ? |
| 29 | Or they could 've got a plane to Paris , nobody would have stopped them . |
| 30 | Should I have stopped them , Floyd ? ’ |