Stop in A Sentence

    1

    A fuse is a safety device to stop overheating in faulty appliances.

    2

    A rug would help, but it wouldn't stop the wind from climbing the insulationless walls or seeping through the gaps around the mopboards.

    3

    A small red sports car skidded to a stop in front of Bird Song as Dean dismounted his bike.

    4

    Absolution was refused by them to those who would not join in the Guise rebellion, and Acquaviva is said to have tried to stop them, but in vain.

    5

    After a quick lunch—salad, no fries—and a stop for gas and a few groceries to further justify the trip, he began the forty-five minute drive back to Ouray.

    6

    After a quick stop at home to change clothes and to leave a short note to Fred, Dean was on the road.

    7

    After I checked out the list I spent the afternoon at a rest stop squinting at a couple of a thou­sand bikers' numbers trying to spot him, but no luck.

    8

    After so many years at war, I knew the demon alone could stop the wars that drove us across the sea to this barren strip of land along the cliffs.

    9

    After so many years at war, I knew the demon alone could stop the wars that drove us from our home of Karyan across the sea to this barren strip of land along the cliffs.

    10

    Agapetus, a man of some force of character, did his best to put a stop to the degradation into which the papacy had fallen, the so-called "Pornocracy," which lasted from the accession of Sergius III.

    11

    Airguns can be used in the garden providing a safe backstop is used to stop pellets leaving the premises.

    12

    All it takes is the resolve to stop - provided you actually want to stop.

    13

    Allin and Lean made no move to stop him, and he entered.

    14

    Although Ethel and Fred had never met, that didn't stop them from developing a strong mutual dislike, fueled via telephone mes­sages and third-party comments.

    15

    Although groups have tried to stop the behemoth of the Euro state, the beast is now in existence and its growth is inexorable.

    16

    An act was, however, passed in 1532 empowering the king, if he thought fit, to stop the payment of annates to Rome.

    17

    An elderly woman in a nearby farm house heard a car stop, an unusual occurrence in so remote an area.

    18

    An elk cow burst out of the brush and skidded to a stop when she saw Alex.

    19

    An experienced man, or even a boy, if selected as possessing the necessary faculty (which is sometimes very strongly marked), can detect the smallest dribble when the stop - cock is so far closed as to restrict the orifice.

    20

    An important result of these quarrels was to stop the supply of American money, without which neither the Land League nor the Home Rule agitation could have been worked.

    21

    An inconsequential little voice said she should stop this because it was nothing more than lust on his part.

    22

    An incorrect substitution of one name for another, a reading which gave an impossible date, insertions of spurious laws or decrees, were points which few readers would stop to notice.

    23

    And further, the principle of causality, if fairly carried out, as universal and necessary, would not allow us to stop at personality or will as the ultimate cause of its effect - volition.

    24

    And I'd accept whatever the consequences were and never be the same for the rest of my life, but I'm not sure knowing all that would still stop me from going ahead and doing it.

    25

    And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception.

    26

    Andre ran hard for a creature that was already dead.  Katie chased him, terrified of looking back when the awful sounds seemed so close.  Only when the ground stopped trembling did Andre stop.

    27

    Animated by the patriotic enthusiasm of Cardinal Ximenes, the Spaniards determined to put a stop to these expeditions which were carrying off their countrymen, destroying their commerce, and even ravaging their country.

    28

    As he pulled her out of the bar, her eyes wide with fear, the boyfriend tried to stop him.

    29

    As it came to a stop the conductor called out in a loud voice.

    30

    As no attempt was made to stop him in the Straits of Gibraltar, he passed them on the 16th of May, and though the rawness of his crews and his own error in wasting time in pursuit of prizes delayed his passage, he reached the mouth of the Delaware on the 8th of July unopposed.

    31

    As usual, the next stop filled the train, and she looked with some irritation at a five-year-old who shoved by her legs to stand next to the window beside her.

    32

    Assuming, for example, that the northern star has the smaller right ascension, the instrument is first, with the aid of the stop, placed in the meridian towards the north; the verniers of the graduated circle g are set to read to the reading 40-2(Sn+Ss) where 0 is the approximate latitude of the place and Sn, Ss the declinations of the northern and southern star respectively; then the level frame h is turned till the levels k and I are in the middle of their run, and there clamped by the screw m, aided in the final adjustment by the adjoining slow motion screw shown in the figure.

    33

    At Barcelona the university had to be closed to stop the revolutionary agitation of the students; in April there were serious riots at Salamanca, Barcelona and Madrid.

    34

    At stations the points that give access to sidings are generally arranged as trailing points with respect to the direction of traffic on the main lines; that is, trains cannot pass direct into sidings, but have to stop and then run backwards into them.

    35

    At the same time he succeeded by drastic measures in putting a stop to the great fluctuations in the value of the paper currency and in resuming specie payments.

    36

    At the same time, in spite of his sympathy with the whole development of idealism since Kant, which leads him to reject the thing in itself, to modify a priorism, and to stop at transcendent " ideals," without postulates of practical reason, he nevertheless has so much sympathy with Kant's Kritik as on its theories of sense and understanding to build up a system of phenomenalism, according to which knowledge begins and ends with ideas, and finally on its theory of pure reason to accord to reason a power of logically forming an " ideal " of God as ground of the moral " ideal " of humanity - though without any power of logically inferring any corresponding reality.

    37

    At this point the official collections stop. The two last, which have found a place in the editions of the Corpus, are "Extrava- collections of private authority, but in which all the gantes" of documents are authentic. Evidently the strict pro John hibition of the publishing of collections not approved XXII.

    38

    Barks and roars from further down the stairs made her stop and grip the railing.

    39

    Before she was able to stop herself, she was crying.

    40

    Beyond this no wise man will go, and short of it hardly any unprejudiced man will stop.

    41

    Bianca watched Sofi being rolled away, unable to stop the tears that rose the moment Sofi was out of sight.

    42

    Breathe deeply until the buzzing in your ears stop.

    43

    But Eric did not stop here.

    44

    But Faraday's demonstration did little to stop the popular craze.

    45

    But he could not always control his followers when their blood was up, and infinite damage was done before he could stop it.

    46

    But that didn't stop the twins.

    47

    But the chief danger lay on the left, where there was little to stop the Austrian advance between the Vallarsa and the Val Terragnolo.

    48

    But the machiavellian pretender, daily growing more skilful at manoeuvring between different classes and parties, knew where to stop and how to keep up a show of democracy.

    49

    But the process does not stop with this rejection of the ancient and the scholastic theology.

    50

    But we cannot stop short here.

    51

    But with these he must stop.

    52

    But you have your life and your duties to others and I must stop wounding your conscience and let you go your destined way.

    53

    But you're not here to stop me.

    54

    But, before Vespasian took action to stop his raids, Simon had been invited to Jerusalem in the hope that he would act as a counterpoise to the tyrant John.

    55

    By opening the stop wider, similar deviations arise for lateral points as have been already discussed for axial points; but in this case they are much more complicated.

    56

    By telling someone what is happening you could help to stop your friend getting hurt. back to top My mom is being abused.

    57

    Can we please stop playing twenty questions and just tell me what you've been doing for the last two and a half hours?

    58

    Can you stop it?

    59

    Charles had before his death been driven to make large legislative concessions to his subjects to stop the tendency shown, especially in Naples, to join the revolted Sicilians.

    60

    Combined, they have the power to stop you.

    61

    Continue the argument or stop it before it got heated.

    62

    Conversation came to a total stop for a few minutes, and then Bill changed the subject.

    63

    Corday wanted Shipton to hang around but couldn't stop him from leaving.

    64

    Cough is not an indication to stop an ACE inhibitor unless it is troublesome.

    65

    Cynthia did not stop him.

    66

    Cynthia, as tired as she was, made her husband stop long enough to film the awe-inspiring display.

    67

    Damian held out an arm to stop him.

    68

    Dammit, stop calling him that!

    69

    Dean chose an area well away from town and parked at a road­side rest stop.

    70

    Dean didn't stop at the house, knowing he'd have to explain his trip to Fred and take him along.

    71

    Dean didn't stop to answer as he broke into a jog with Fred hustling to keep up.

    72

    Dean knew in time, he'd get over the sudden death of Edith Shipton but he also knew the fact he failed to stop her from killing herself would remain with him forever.

    73

    Dean nodded on his way back to his quarters but didn't stop.

    74

    Dean thanked her and was about to hang up but she insisted he tell that nice Mr. O'Connor she had called and would hold him to his promise to stop by and see her.

    75

    Dean was still trying to catch his breath when another car rolled to a stop on the road above him.

    76

    Dean waved his arms to stop the car, an unnecessary gesture as his Jeep completely blocked the narrow road.

    77

    Did either of you stop and buy bike shoes?

    78

    Did you stop drinking the juice your master gave you? an unfamiliar voice asked.

    79

    Do not stop to collect personal belongings, or use the lift.

    80

    Don.t stop running until you.re back at the castle.

    81

    During the next few years there was such a steady influx of Chinese free immigrants that in the spring of 1881 the Hawaiian government sent a despatch to the governor of Hong Kong to stop this invasion.

    82

    During the two following days the pasha and his son TUsun rode about the streets and tried to stop the atrocities; but order was not restored until 500 houses had been completely pillaged.

    83

    Early in March 1882 he visited some of the worst districts in Ireland, and addressed the crowd at Tullamore on the subject of outrages, denouncing the people for their want of courage in not assisting the government, but adding, "whether you do or not, it is the duty of the government to stop the outrages, and stop them we will."

    84

    Ed plunged to a stop and Alex pulled her up into the saddle with him.

    85

    Ed snorted and side-stepped as the Great Pyrenees guard dog slid to a stop beside them.

    86

    Elise won't let me stop.

    87

    Evelyn didn't stop for a full minute.

    88

    Even if she's not in your jurisdiction, couldn't you just stop by and speak to her, tell her what her husband intends to do?

    89

    Everyday I wipe up the puddle of wee around the toilet and have to stop myself slipping cos you haven't used the bathmat.

    90

    Failed jammer (and no backup) - using Stop as chest ascender.

    91

    Firewalls stop intrusion attempts and prevent many threats getting through.

    92

    Fitzgerald made a move to stop him, but John Wayne's twin with a bigger belly in a grey suit shook his head.

    93

    For example, if the falling body s is attached by a thread to the pendulum of a timepiece, it may be used to stop it and indicate the approximate time at which the tremor occurred.

    94

    For the first time since leaving Darkyn, Rhyn realized no one had tried to stop him yet.  No demons stood in front of Kiki's door and Darkyn hadn't ordered the castle after him.

    95

    For the first week after the operation they will need to wear a large support bandage to stop them bending the leg.

    96

    For with unstable balances, although the smallest excess of weight in the goods-pan will cause it to descend till it is brought up by its stop, yet being in this position, a very much greater weight than the difference which brought it there will be required in the weights-pan to enable it to mount again.

    97

    Fred and Dean didn't stop to exam­ine them but continued to casually stroll by.

    98

    Fred wanted to drive the extra 30 miles or more and visit the rest stop drop location but Dean put his foot down, pointing out that it was two months earlier when the money disappeared.

    99

    Gaius Cassius, governor of Cisalpine Gaul, and the praetor Gnaeus Manlius, who attempted to stop him, were defeated at Mutina.

    100

    Generally, with the exception just mentioned, the machine is much the same as the ordinary stop or Wharfedale.

    101

    Girls, stop your whispering, I say.

    102

    Granted, we didn't stop her death, but she didn't kill herself through any direct fault of ours.

    103

    Hannah, stop!  We'll leave here together – don't worry about your body!

    104

    Hannah, stop!  We'll leave here together – don't worry about your body!

    105

    Have you ever tried to stop?

    106

    He did not stop to criticize as a philologist, and ignored the miraculous.

    107

    He did stay a little longer; but the embers that still burnt in him refused to be covered up. He would fain have ceased writing, and used to say, "It's a great thing to know when to stop"; but he could not stop, and did not stop, till the last.

    108

    He didn't appear out of thin air to stop her, and she made it from the mansion to the Tucson airport's arrivals drop-off area, where she stopped in front of the Delta curbside check-in sign and handed Jake the keys.

    109

    He doesn't appear to be, but I had to stop and let him rest several times before he got to the barn.

    110

    He fought with unrestrained fury, not wanting to stop and think of the most ridiculous thought ever to cross his mind.

    111

    He had no idea if he possessed the strength to stop his fall once the loosened slack had expired.

    112

    He had no influence in Italy; in Burgundy he could neither stop Duke Philip the Good from adding Luxemburg to his possessions, nor check the towering ambition of Charles the Bold; while after the death of Charles in 1477 he was equally unable to prevent the king 01

    113

    He hissed, "I will stop when you have silenced yourselves."

    114

    He identified several major flaws in her defense, struck them multiple times to confirm, and caught her wrist to stop her.

    115

    He pointed out the disadvantage of a submarine in attempting to stop such an armed vessel for search, and emphasized that armament on a merchantman had every appearance of being offensive.

    116

    He probably knew that, but that wouldn't stop him from feeling anxious about it.

    117

    He put a stop to all persecutions of the Church and religious orders, and enforced respect of Church property.

    118

    He was still lying on the bed as before, but the stern expression of his quiet face made Princess Mary stop short on the threshold.

    119

    He wished women would stop saying nice things about him.

    120

    He'd put a stop to this foolishness.

    121

    He's about to lead my demons to the underworld.  With the Immortals in disarray and Death's … mistake, I can own the underworld before Rhyn can control his power enough to stop me.

    122

    He's about to lead my demons to the underworld.  With the Immortals in disarray and Death's … mistake, I can own the underworld before Rhyn can control his power enough to stop me.

    123

    Her breath caught as she recalled his searing touch and gaze, his passionate kisses, his confidence that nothing in this world would stop him from getting what he wanted.

    124

    Her heart and breathing drowning out every other sound, she raced down the hall and around a corner, sliding to a stop as she saw the men headed her way.

    125

    Here they did not attempt to repeat their old charges, but found a more effective weapon to their hands in a new charge of a political kind - that Athanasius had threatened to stop the Alexandrian corn-ships bound for Constantinople.

    126

    Here you would expect him to stop, as the German Neo-Kantism of Lange stops, with the consistent conclusion that all we know of Nature from such data is these complexes of sensation-elements, or phenomena in the Kantian meaning.

    127

    His arrival was celebrated by a barbarous massacre of the Latins in Constantinople, which he made no attempt to stop. He allowed Alexius to be crowned, but forced him to consent to the death of all his friends, including his mother, his sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.

    128

    His attention was riveted on her as he altered his course to stop at the table in front of her.

    129

    His endeavour, for instance, to put a stop to the slave raiding which devastated the Sudan provinces was wholly ineffectual.

    130

    His inability to handle a steed were obviously when he could not make the horst stop running.

    131

    His incisors grew unbidden; he didn't stop them this time.

    132

    His prestige as a minister, already injured by these two blows, suffered further during the autumn and winter from the cattledriving agitation in Ireland, which he at first feebly criticized and finally strongly denounced, but which his refusal to utilize the Crimes Act made him powerless to stop by the processes of the "ordinary law"; and the scandal arising out of the theft of the Dublin crown jewels in the autumn of 1907 was a further blot on the Irish administration.

    133

    His stomach wanted to know why he didn't stop for dinner but he ignored it.

    134

    How to put a stop to racist abuse How can you help a friend?

    135

    However, patients with the antiphospholipid antibody are usually given low-dose aspirin to stop their blood from clotting.

    136

    I almost died a million times over, and if I didn't know how to enable the shields on the escape pod, I would have burned up in the atmosphere, and if that didn't kill me, then hitting the planet-- He held up a hand, planting it across her mouth when she refused to stop.

    137

    I ask all in favor to stop being so apathetic and voice your opinion.

    138

    I can see nothing which will put a stop to this mischievous propaganda but some striking proof of the intention of Her Majesty's government nDt to be ousted from its position in South Africa.

    139

    I can't stop eating.

    140

    I can't stop it.

    141

    I can't stop the strikes if I can't get through on my net.

    142

    I chased him down this bluff but then I started getting pains in my chest and short of breath until I just had to stop.

    143

    I couldn't stop that.

    144

    I don't think the Others or Watchers can stop me.

    145

    I guess when you stop counting hours and days and just count months or years—

    146

    I guess when you stop counting hours and days and just count months or years—

    147

    I had to stop at the church to make arrange­ments.

    148

    I hate them, but I finally threw my hat in the ring with them to stop Darian and to stop them from slaughtering my people.

    149

    I have to do this.  If you have to stop me … it won't change how I felt about you.

    150

    I have to do this.  If you have to stop me … it won't change how I felt about you.

    151

    I inform the campground caretakers when I stop, I have an ill wife aboard, so don't disturb us.

    152

    I just thought I'd stop by.

    153

    I laughed in the pretender's face as his blood poured down his shirt and into his pants as he tried in vain to stop the flow.

    154

    I like doing the backstroke as well because if I stop I just float in the water.

    155

    I met him as he rode into town, and he said that he intended to stop at this hotel.

    156

    I tickled him and told him I wouldn't stop until he told me to.

    157

    I understand you have friends doing your chores, and your hospital bill has already been paid through tomorrow, so stop worrying and complete your convalescence.

    158

    I wanted to stop and see it for myself.

    159

    I was fearful he might try to stop me, but there are many girls willing to do as I've done, for food and shelter, so I shan't be missed.

    160

    I wasn't about to stop it.

    161

    I will fight to stop every one of you.

    162

    I will make you beg for mercy, beg for mercy, beg for me to stop.

    163

    I will stop him.

    164

    I won't stop you.

    165

    I won't try to stop you.

    166

    I would never stop you from going to college or doing anything else you wanted to do.

    167

    I'll put a stop to it.

    168

    I'll stop by later and check in on you.

    169

    I'll stop by on my way out and try to talk to him.

    170

    I'll stop the whole thing before I'll do that.

    171

    I'll stop you if you get too far off base.

    172

    I'll tell Harrigan to stop the investigation but Arthur's actions are pretty strange.

    173

    I'm going to have to stop typing now I've become too angry.

    174

    I'm waiting for her to stop making eyes at your stud.

    175

    I've got to get up early tomorrow and stop by Mr. Steadman's place before I go to work.

    176

    If everyone would stop talking about it...

    177

    If he could only get his heart to stop racing.

    178

    If he wanted to talk to her, he'd have to stop referring to Alex as him.

    179

    If she gave herself a second to think, she'd stop and sob, until someone else came by and killed her.

    180

    If she's there, at least you'll stop hitting on me, she said with a frown.

    181

    If the poor remove rich people's incentives to produce economic gain, the rich, who behave somewhat rationally, will stop producing.

    182

    If the system be entirely behind the aperture stop, then this is itself the entrance pupil (" front stop "); if entirely in front, it is the exit pupil (" back stop ").

    183

    If we can't stop the Grey God, the mortal world will not survive.

    184

    If we do as you say, will you stop whatever it is you're doing in my ranks and leave me alone?

    185

    If we find her, we can stop her before she takes Katie.  We don't know what the demons are doing, but we know Death is looking for Katie.

    186

    If weather is cold and backward, however, and in very northern regions, care must be taken not to stop firing too soon, or the plants will mildew and become stunted.

    187

    If what A'Ran said was true, her presence would stop the suffering of his people.

    188

    If you came to stop us … Jenn drew her second knife.

    189

    If you came to stop us … Jenn drew her second knife.

    190

    If you don't start thinking like a God and stop thinking like a hormonal teen, I'll replace you, Xander warned in a low growl.

    191

    If you don't stop now, there will be nothing left.

    192

    If you stop and think about it, ignorance is in your best interests.

    193

    If you want me to behave myself, we're going to have to stop this.

    194

    In 1188 Philip submitted, and immediately afterwards Frederick took the cross in order to stop the victorious career of Saladin, who had just taken Jerusalem.

    195

    In 1788 the country, which had at the bidding of the literary guests of Madame Necker come to believe that Necker was the only minister who could "stop the deficit," as they said, demanded Necker's recall, and in September 1788 he became once more director-general of the finances.

    196

    In 1803 he cast in his lot with the former; in 1804 he turned against them and proclaimed his loyalty to the sultan; in 1805 the sheiks of Cairo, in the hope of putting a stop to the intolerable anarchy, elected him pasha, and a year later an imperial firman confirmed their choice.

    197

    In 1863 Sir Richard Burton, then British consul at Fernando Po, went to Benin to try and put a stop to human sacrifices, an attempt in which he did not succeed.

    198

    In any case the front trellis should stop conveniently short of the top of the sashes if there are trees against the back wall, in order to admit light to them.

    199

    In carrying out the regime of Rampolla, which was, in every respect, a bad imitation of that of Antonelli, the Vatican left no stone unturned in its attempt to coerce the conscience of the French royalists; it did not even stop at dishonour, as was evidenced by the case of the unhappy Mgr d'Hulst, who, in order to evade the censorship of his pamphlet on Old Testament criticism, had to abandon both his king and his principles, only to die in exile of a broken heart.

    200

    In no department did activity immediately stop; but the old freshness and creative exuberance was gone.

    201

    In November the news of the conclusion of the peace of Westphalia reached Prague and put a stop to hostilities.

    202

    In other words, thought, which will 'not stop, takes to mythology; and in the place of reason we have superstition.

    203

    In September he had foretold that it would not stop short of the death of both king and queen.

    204

    In the following year George obtained some successes over his rival, but his death in 1471 for a time put a stop to the war.

    205

    In the following year Podébrad was more successful in his resistance to his many enemies, but his death on the 22nd of March 1471 put a stop to the war.

    206

    In the latter case the defendant could stop the progress of the seizure by paying the debt, giving a pledge, or demanding a trial; and he then could choose a Brehon.

    207

    In the latter part of 1809 Napoleon virtually resolved to annex Holland, in order to stop the trade which the Dutch secretly carried on with England.

    208

    In theory these successive approximations may be carried as far as we please, but in practice the labour of executing each approximation is so great that we are obliged to stop when the solution is so near the truth that the outstanding error is less than that of the best observations.

    209

    Indian traditions tell how reformers have persuaded the people in the past to stop their human sacrifices to serpent-spirits (Fergusson, 64, Oldham, ioi), and a survival may be recognized in parts of the N.W.

    210

    Is there any way I can get you to stop calling me that?

    211

    It certainly didn't stop him from puffing away.

    212

    It doesn't stop him from living a normal life, though.

    213

    It might save them both, since every inch of her being wanted to scream at him to stop.

    214

    It requires the middle of the aperture stop to be reproduced in the centres of the entrance and exit pupils without spherical aberration.

    215

    It shot off the counter, hitting the block wall and bouncing off to roll across the floor and stop at Carmen's feet.

    216

    It spit out someone else from the immortal world then slowed to a near stop.

    217

    It was embarrassing, but she couldn't stop.

    218

    It was formerly thought that Calvin published this work with a view to influence the king to put a stop to the attacks on the Protestants, but there is nothing in the treatise itself or in the commentary to favour this opinion.

    219

    It was time to stop burdening Alex with every decision and make a few of her own.

    220

    It's the sudden stop at the bottom.

    221

    Its speed is greater than the stop cylinder (it may be geared to produce from 1500 to Two copies per hour, printed one side only).

    222

    Janet and Ouray were but a stop on the bumpy road to nowhere.

    223

    Jenn didn't know if her pregnancy could be reversed, even upon returning to the mortal world, but she knew they couldn't stop long enough for Sofi to have her baby.

    224

    Jenn waited for the ground to stop rumbling before she stepped forward uneasily, gaze on the area where the portal was.

    225

    Josh vaulted the fence and raced up the hill, only to stop in surprise as Alex emerged from the trees riding a horse colored enough like Ed to be his twin.

    226

    Jule pulled his horse to a stop.

    227

    Jule wound his way through the crowd, smiling politely at the women who placed manicured hands on his arm to stop him.

    228

    Just keep talking to me and stop chasing dreams.

    229

    Katie emerged in time to see her sister stop beside her fiancé.

    230

    Katie heard Deidre's footsteps stop abruptly and turned around.  The woman was facing the opposite direction.

    231

    Large vessels cannot enter its roadstead, and stop at Rafso.

    232

    Let's stop there before I pass out.

    233

    Life is complicated; you can't let it stop you from living.

    234

    Like the graining or " milling " on the edge of many coins, the inscriptions were intended to put a stop to the practice of clipping and filing coins, which was prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries.

    235

    Like the others, he would stop when it didn't get the results he wanted.

    236

    Love isn't a factor at your age or really at all, if you stop to think about how it's nothing more than a form of socially acceptable codependence.

    237

    Man-up and stop groveling.

    238

    Maybe he didn't stop Edith Shipton from taking her own life and maybe he couldn't have done so if he'd tried, but the bottom line scrawled in bold print said he stood idly by while it happened.

    239

    Maybe it was because always before she could stop him at will.

    240

    Maybe they'd question it less if he'd stop trying to pick up pretty men at gay bars.

    241

    Maybe you should stop dragging my kids into this mess!

    242

    Meanwhile a reform league had been formed to stop the prevailing misrule and extravagance; it was supported by a volunteer military force, the " Honolulu Rifles."

    243

    Meanwhile the Mahratta conquest of Bassein and Salsette (1737-1739) had put a stop to the hostility of the Portuguese, and a treaty of alliance with the Siddis (1733) had secured a base of supplies on the mainland.

    244

    Megan wished she could stop the flood of color that burned her cheeks.

    245

    Merwan immediately ordered Ibn Hobaira to stop his march and to wait for him at Durin, and marched with the main force against Suleiman, whom he utterly defeated at Khosaf in the district of Kinnesrin.

    246

    Ministers might even then have taken steps to stop the vessel by directing her detention in any British port to which she resorted for supplies.

    247

    More important, when would she stop viewing him as a big brother?

    248

    Most heroin addicts don't usually want to stop being addicts.

    249

    Most stop here, but some go with Fechner to the full length of his metaphysical parallelism of the physical and psychical, as psychophysical, throughout the whole world.

    250

    Mr Schreiner's attention was called to this consignment at the time, but he refused to stop it, alleging as his reason that, inasmuch as Great Britain was at peace with the Free State, he had no right to interdict the passage of arms through the Cape Colony.

    251

    My Guardians are there to stop him.

    252

    Nearly every branch of his own railwaymen's organization, he said, had not only passed resolutions against the policy, but had threatened on its introduction to stop work.

    253

    Necker put a stop to the rebellion in Dauphine by legalizing its assembly, and then set to work to arrange for the summons of the states general.

    254

    Neither did he stop at mere appearances of any kind, but, having stamped the image of things upon his brain, went on indefatigably to probe their hidden laws and causes.

    255

    Nickel salts are antiseptic; they arrest fermentation and stop the growth of plants.

    256

    No one made a move to stop him.

    257

    No, it wasn't any of you're business when you thought you caught Alex and me, but it didn't stop you from making your nasty accusations.

    258

    Nope. Our only stop was for a couple of beers.

    259

    Not any more than you could stop our baby from being taken away.

    260

    Now maybe he would stop trying to meddle in her life.

    261

    Now the instrument is slowly turned towards the south, till the azimuth arm is gently brought into contact with the corresponding stop s, care being taken not to touch any part of the instrument except the azimuth arm itself.

    262

    Oh my God, what—" "Lacy, stop!"

    263

    On April 27th-28th, 1910, Paulhan successfully flew from London to Manchester, with only one stop, within 24 hours, for the Daily Mail's £ io,000 prize.

    264

    On arriving at a certain height the lift ceases and the jenny is released, and by the continued pull of the rope, it runs up the jib; on arriving at an adjustable stop, the jenny is again locked, and the load can be lowered out; the hook can then be raised, when the jenny is automatically unlocked, and on paying out the rope the jenny gravitates to its first position, when the load is lowered and the cycle repeated.

    265

    On his return he was forced by illness to stop at Nola, his father's old home.

    266

    On the 12th of September 1812, he started with two Armenian servants, crossed the Araxes, rode from Tabriz to Erivan, from Erivan to Kars, from Kars to Erzerum, from Erzerum to Chiflik, urged on from place to place by a thoughtless Tatar guide, and, though the plague was raging at Tokat (near Eski-Shehr in Asia Minor), he was compelled by prostration to stop there.

    267

    On the 20th of January 1692 Le Clerc announced to Locke his intention to publish the pamphlet in Latin; and, upon the intimation of this to Sir Isaac, he entreated him " to stop the translation and impression as soon as he could, for he designed to suppress them."

    268

    On the 22nd of January Kruger met Warren at the Modder river, and endeavoured to stop him from proceeding farther, saying that he would be responsible for keeping order in the country.

    269

    On the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Maury didn't want war and he wrote many letters to governers to ask them to try to stop their people from war.

    270

    On the way home she decided to stop at the clinic and see if Alex wanted to go out to lunch.

    271

    One of the first measures adopted by them in Castile, before the union with Aragon, was to stop the nomination of foreigners to Spanish benefices by the pope.

    272

    Only when they both emerged into the basement did she stop to catch her breath.

    273

    Operators who used the recorder soon learned to read the message by the click of the armature against its stop, and as this left the hands and eyes free to write, reading by sound was usually preferred.

    274

    Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

    275

    Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

    276

    Past-Death claims to – stop!

    277

    Perhaps I'll stop in town and buy a couple of those tomahawks gadgets and pointy-toe shoes and give it a try.

    278

    Pippin it was, in short, who governed, who set in order the social confusions of Neustria, who, after long wars, put a stop to the malpractices of the dukes and counts, and summoned councils of bishops to make good regulations.

    279

    Probably it made little real difference, for the extreme party in Ireland were resolved to stop at nothing.

    280

    Road safety group welcomes Police driver`s acquittal -- and says it`s time to stop prosecuting civilian drivers for trivial offenses.

    281

    Run, B, and don't stop.

    282

    Sarah found her self control quickly, and could retract her fangs of her own accord, though Jackson still required verbal cues, and at times physical restraint from Gabriel to stop feeding.

    283

    She couldn't let it stop her now, though this kind of fear was far different than that of losing her life or failure on a mission.

    284

    She couldn't stop thinking of Brady.

    285

    She did nothing - nothing to stop him, anyway.

    286

    She didn.t try to stop him.

    287

    She didn't stop until she was inside the house and had the door locked.

    288

    She didn't try to stop him.

    289

    She first complained in murmurs, then wept, and at last burst into loud lamentations, earnestly beseeching the operator to stop.

    290

    She grabbed it from him and yelled, "Stop this right now!"

    291

    She had been letting him feed on her to teach him how to stop.

    292

    She had come this far, and nothing was going to stop her now.

    293

    She had to stop thinking about the past that way.

    294

    She had to stop thinking of it that way.

    295

    She had to stop thinking that way.

    296

    She hopes that the wild animals will stop the world's media getting too close.

    297

    She looked dumbfounded but made no move to stop him.

    298

    She might as well stop avoiding the subject.

    299

    She pulled Ed to a stop and curled a knee around the saddle horn, watching the scene.

    300

    She put her hands on his chest and giggled, "I have work to do, you need to stop distracting me."

    301

    She ran downstairs screaming, Jackson, stop it!

    302

    She slowed and came to a stop, staring out into the pasture.

    303

    She started for the door to stop him, but half way to her destination she paused.

    304

    She started to cry again, too exhausted to stop.

    305

    She stepped on something squishy but didn't let herself stop to think about what it was.

    306

    She was meant to be his, this he didn't doubt, though he couldn't stop the trickle of unease that warned him she may not be able to adjust to their world as easily as he wished.

    307

    She was pulled over for a misdemeanor traffic stop.

    308

    She watched him stop lacing his boots.

    309

    She whispered something to him and he just laughed in her face and said, 'Try and stop me'.

    310

    She'd helped Rhyn stop Darkyn's demons.

    311

    She'd learned to stop thinking when in the ring with him and listen to her senses, to include the mind control talent.

    312

    Similar examinations by means of the stop-valves on the mains are also made, and it often happens that the residual leakage (400 gallons an hour in the last case) recorded on the diagram, but not shut off by the house stop - cocks, is mentioned by the inspector as an " outside waste," and localized as having been heard at a stop-cock and traced by sounding the pavement to a particular position under a particular street.

    313

    Single cylinder machines (in England generally called " Wharfedales "), usually built on the " stop " cylinder principle, and printing one side of the sheet only.

    314

    Sirian was determined to tear Tiyan apart, and she did not know enough of war planning to know how to stop him.

    315

    So how do we stop excessive risk aversion, but still protect people?

    316

    So that if, for example, a fishmonger uses such a machine to ascertain the weight of a piece of fish which he places in the goods - pan, and thereby depresses it down upon its stop, and then places weights in the weights-pan till the goods-pan rises, the customer is charged for more than the real weight of the fish.

    317

    So..... to stop back pain recurring, keep fit and stay active.

    318

    Some people can stop taking benzodiazepines or Z drugs with little difficulty.

    319

    Some practically stop here; the apologist proceeds.

    320

    Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever stop seeing that.

    321

    Sometimes that's the only way you can get them to stop their nagging.

    322

    Still the garrison was disheartened; but Colonel Stoddarts arrival on the 11th of August to threaten the shah with British intervention put a stop to further action.

    323

    Stop admonishing the people around you.

    324

    Stop and consider that for a moment.

    325

    Stop arguing with me and get on that horse, or do you want me to put you on it?

    326

    Stop being a dickhead.

    327

    Stop calling him that!

    328

    Stop dragging your feet.

    329

    Stop harassing the intel guy, Larry said.

    330

    Stop it, she directed him mentally.

    331

    Stop leaving grain out for her.

    332

    Stop moving around—I've still got the gun and I'll use it.

    333

    Stop moving around—I've still got the gun and I'll use it.

    334

    Stop overlooking the resources you have at your disposal.

    335

    Stop Press... There will be a special Lottery draw to commemorate the 25th anniversary, with a top prize of £ 2500.

    336

    Stop thinking about it.

    337

    Stop treating me special.

    338

    Stop, stop! she cried to the coachman.

    339

    Subinfeudation came to a complete stop, and whenever great family estates broke up the king obtained new tenants-in-chief.

    340

    Thankfully, there was no mention of a tip, psychic or otherwise; only a "routine traffic stop."

    341

    That didn.t stop her from being angry at the man who would dump her sister off to deal with the hell she.d gone through.

    342

    That is to say, they stop out just those sections of white light transmitted through them which form their own special luminous badges.

    343

    The addition of weights in the scales will have the effect of raising the point H till it gets above Z, and the balance, becoming unstable, will turn till it is brought up by a stop of some kind.

    344

    The affair would not have gone on so smoothly, had not the opportune defection of the Arabians put a stop to the inward schism which threatened.

    345

    The business didn't stop, although there was a lot of talk in the newspapers about closing down all the bars and clubs.

    346

    The closed-down rest stop was just before it.

    347

    The discovery of Mount Bischoff one year later, though it greatly stimulated speculation and induced a large influx of immigrants, did not put a stop to the outflow, for in 1880 the population was still below 115,000.

    348

    The doctor said they tried unsuccessfully to stop labor, but the babies are healthy and big enough.

    349

    The effect of the abnormal conditions is probably to stop the production of, or weaken or destroy the protective enzymes or antitoxins, the presence of which normally confers immunity on the leaf.

    350

    The effect of these expeditions, and of this extension of military occupation, has been to reduce the independent Pathan tribes of the Suliman mountains to effective order, and to put a stop to border raiding on the Indus plains south of the Gomal.

    351

    The Egyptians did not stop at the mummification of the human body; sacred animals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and even insects were treated in a similar way, and the meat offerings deposited with the wealthy dead were likewise "preserved."

    352

    The emperor wished to stop Garibaldis passage across the strait, and stationed his fleet at Gaeta to protect the king of Naples.

    353

    The ends of arcs frequently extend to the horizon, but often one or both ends stop short of this.

    354

    The equations 65 and 66 are applicable to a kind of brake called a friction-strap, used to stop or moderate the velocity of machines by being tightened round a pulley.

    355

    The familiar voice – Death's voice – made Katie stop.  She watched Gabe hack down another slithering branch.  The Andre phantom stood nearby.  He pointed in a different direction once more.

    356

    The first cost of a hammer of moderate size is much less than that of a hydraulic press of like capacity, as is readily understood when we stop to reflect what powerful pressure, if gradually applied, would be needed to drive the nail which a light blow from our hand hammer forces easily into the woodwork.

    357

    The freedom he claimed for the Church was freedom to manage her affairs without the interference of the state; the champions of the papal monarchy, and notably the Jesuits, desired freedom in order to put a stop to the dissemination of modern ideas.

    358

    The French government now asked to be allowed to march into Spain, as Austria had marched into Naples, as the mandatory of the powers, for the purpose of putting a stop to a state of things perilous alike to herself and to all Europe.

    359

    The growth of the parasitic larva does not stop the development of the host-larva, and when the latter pupates and assumes the winged form, the stylopid, which has completed its transformation, is carried to the outer world.

    360

    The head should be massive, a short muzzle with a somewhat abrupt stop and fairly prominent brow.

    361

    The Hebrew and probably the Phoenician name for 0 was Ain (Ayin), and in the Semitic alphabet, which does not indicate vowels, the symbol stood for a "voiced glottal stop" and also for a "voiced velar spirant" (Zimmern).

    362

    The incoming workers returning pollen-laden from the fields, carried away by the prevailing excitement, do not stop to unload their burdens in the old home, but join the enthusiastic emigrants, tumbling over each other pell-mell in the outrush; among them the queen of the colony will in due course have taken her place, bound like her children for a new home.

    363

    The invention of vowel-signs of diacritic points to distinguish similarly formed consonants, and of other orthographic signs, soon put a stop to arbitrary conjectures on the part of the readers.

    364

    The Japanese employed wire-netting screens to stop the Russian grenades.

    365

    The least I could do is stop charging you at all, Evelyn said, chuckling.

    366

    The local barbarians told us of its power, how it can heal a man from death and stop a storm from destroying a village.

    367

    The main object is to see that the liquids are distributed evenly while the fibre is passing through, and to stop the supply when the machine stops or when no fibre is passing.

    368

    The man who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw himself on a sofa with his face to the wall.

    369

    The medics finally motioned for her to stop and closed double doors.

    370

    The members of the Romanist league recently founded at Halle would not help the Habsburgs, and in June 1534, by the treaty of Cadan, King Ferdinand was forced to recognize the restoration as afait accompli; at the same time he was compelled to promise that he would stop all proceedings of the Reichskasnmergericht against the members of the league of Schmalkalden.

    371

    The missionaries, who have reduced the language to writing (Gospel of St Luke, London, 1881), assert that it contains no fewer than 30,000 words, although the numerals stop at five, already a compound form, and although the same word expresses both hand and finger; but it appears that a large number of the words included in this total are compounds.

    372

    The modern single or " stop " cylinder, quite different in construc- Wharfe= tion from the old single cylinder machines, largely suc dale" ceeded the double platen machine.

    373

    The more he read, the harder it was to stop.

    374

    The necessity of putting a stop to belated prosecutions on this account in the town court led to the acceptance of the rule that nobody who had lived in a town undisturbed for the term of a year and a day could any longer be claimed by a lord as his serf.

    375

    The new emperor recalled those who had been exiled by Domitian; what remained of their confiscated property was restored to them, and a stop was put to the vexatious prosecutions which Domitian had encouraged.

    376

    The only way she could be sure she was what he wanted was to stop pretending.

    377

    The perisarc when, present invests the hydrorhiza and hydrocaulus; it may stop short below the hydranth, or it may extend farther.

    378

    The pictures Rhyn showed her wouldn't leave her thoughts, even if Darkyn had agreed to stop the slaughter.

    379

    The pitch of the screw is the same as that of the measuring screw (50 threads to the inch), and its motion can be limited by a stop to half a revolution.

    380

    The prince (sometimes called king) of Zetta, Yovan Vladimir, tried to stop the triumphal march of the Bulgarian Tsar Samuel through the Serb provinces, but in 989 was defeated, made prisoner and sent to Samuel's capital, Prespa.

    381

    The reason for these mutinies was the attempt made by successive pashas to put a stop to the extortion called Tulbah, a forced payment exacted by the troops from the inhabitants of the country by the fiction of debts requiring to be discharged, which led to grievous ill-usage.

    382

    The rebels abode by their decision to stop the daily sacrifice for the emperor; Agrippa's troops capitulated and marched out unhurt; and the Romans, who surrendered on the same condition and laid down their arms, were massacred.

    383

    The resemblance between father and son was enough to make her stop two steps into the clearing.

    384

    The return trip took them past Bascomb Place and as they rounded the corner, Fred yelled "Stop!" so violently Dean thought he was about to run down an unseen nun.

    385

    The river speeding on its course to the sea, the sun and moon, if not the stars also, on their never-ceasing daily round, the lightning, fire, the wind, the sea, all are in motion and therefore animate; but the savage does not stop short here; mountains and lakes, stones and manufactured articles, are for him alike endowed with souls like his own; he deposits in the tomb weapons and food, clothes and implements, broken, it may be, in order to set free their souls; or he attains the same result by burning them, and thus sending them to the Other World for the use of the dead man.

    386

    The shoot is placed in the upper mouthpiece, and the stop or door, which retains the coal in the chamber, is released; the coal is then discharged into the retort, and rushing down the incline, is arrested by the barrier, and banks up, forming a continuous backing to the coal following.

    387

    The sight of him naked to his waist made her stop.

    388

    The slow mail steamers stop at every port in the Gulf, either on the upward or the downward voyage.

    389

    The sounds and smells of the forest nearly caused them to lose focus and stop running to fully experience their surroundings.

    390

    The state banks still have the right to issue currency, but the heavy tax on currency issue imposed by Congress in 1866 (after the introduction of the National banking system in 1863) put a stop to the practice.

    391

    The study itself was not stopped, but the participants were told to stop taking the beta carotene and vitamin A or placebos.

    392

    The troubles which began in 1450 put a stop to the work.

    393

    The truck slid to a stop in the yard, spraying gravel and dust.

    394

    The water should be let on, and trial made of the work, whenever it is finished, and the motion of the water regulated by the introduction of a stop in the conductors and feeders where a change in the motion of the current is observed, beginning at the upper end of the meadow.

    395

    The weather's shitty so you'd better stop by your place and pick up some clothes in case you get stuck and can't fly back tonight.

    396

    The words echoed in her head, and she walked blindly for several moments, until the cold burning her lungs made her stop.

    397

    Their very numbers and their crowded and swift movement deprived them of that possibility and rendered it not only difficult but impossible for the Russians to stop this movement, to which the French were directing all their energies.

    398

    Then he wanted to dump them back at the rest stop.

    399

    Then stop trying to get in my head and work harder at get­ting in my pants.

    400

    There he was still working when the outbreak of the World War and the decision of Turkey to join the Central European Powers put an abrupt stop to all archaeological work and called Lawrence to what proved a wider field.

    401

    There was an upscale coffee shop a couple of blocks away and Fred suggested they stop for coffee.

    402

    There was no doubt that she appreciated Cynthia's cooking far more than the bus stop steam lines of the last few days.

    403

    There was nothing at this time we could do to stop this serial killer of children.

    404

    There was nothing that would stop him from punishing the man who left his mother to die alone.

    405

    There wasn't anybody to stop her.

    406

    There's no other— "Stop," he ordered.

    407

    There's no other— "Stop," he ordered.

    408

    There's really nothing you can do to stop me.

    409

    These guys can't stop doing this shit; they're obsessed.

    410

    They do stop, but First Contact ends up being rather anticlimactic.

    411

    They prospered greatly during the 14th century, but Turkish rule put a stop to this industry after 1 459; and the revival only began in 1835, under the patronage of Prince Milosh.

    412

    They reached a compromise and Baratto began to half-tell his story until Dean found an all-night truck stop, miles north of Parkside.

    413

    They shoot to death four people that stop there and also abduct a woman.

    414

    They're going to stop attacking Guardians, too, and they're going to focus on Darian.

    415

    This difference is readily explained when we remember that in Europe the main barriers which stop migration, such as the Alps and the Mediterranean, run east and west, while in America the only barriers of any importance run north and south.

    416

    This done, the stops s and t are clamped and adjusted so that when arm r comes in contact with the screw of stop t the telescope will point due north, and when in contact with s, it will point due south, or vice versa.

    417

    This invasion checked but did not stop the advance of the Russians down the Volga.

    418

    This is described as having "an head about a quarter of a yard long, a staffe of two yards long put into their head, twelve iron pikes round about, and one in the end to stop with."

    419

    This weeks bestseller is ' ICY ', the sexy bags just won't stop flying out of here!

    420

    Though he made no move to stop her once she was visible, he did trail her.

    421

    Three of the codons are instructions to stop building, which leaves 61 to code for particular amino acids.

    422

    Thus curare may stop strychnine convulsions by paralysing the terminations of motor nerves, and chloroform may exercise the same effect by abolishing the irritability of the spinal cord.

    423

    Time sped by and he was surprised how quickly he pulled into the first rest stop and spotted Fred O'Connor working on a cup of coffee and a blueberry muffin.

    424

    Titu Maiorescu put a stop to the prevailing Latinism, and turned the current of Rumanian literature into a more healthy channel, by the publication of his Critice (1874).

    425

    To all such suggestions, up to the time of issuing his emancipation proclamation, Lincoln announced his readiness to stop fighting and grant amnesty, whenever they would submit to and maintain the national authority under the Constitution of the United States.

    426

    To control your balloon, use the correct preposition from the top to go forward and the correct preposition from the bottom to stop.

    427

    To find how much greater, we compare two series, in one of which we go up to 9, while in the other we stop at 4 and then recommence our counting.

    428

    To find the distance s through which a brake, exerting the friction F, must rub in order to stop a machine having the total actual energy E at the moment when the brake begins to act, reduce, by the principles of 96, the various efforts and other resistances of the machine which act at the same time with the friction of the brake to the rubbing surface of the brake, and let R be their resultantpositive if resistance, negative if effort preponderates.

    429

    To put a stop to this the Powers decided to intervene by means of a joint demonstration of their fleets, in order to enforce an armistice and compel Ibrahim to evacuate the Morea (Treaty of London, July 6, 1827).

    430

    To put a stop to this, to ensure his own access to the Mediterranean and exclude his chief rival, Napoleon made a desperate effort in 1812 against a country as invincible as Spain.

    431

    To stop the fire rows of buildings were dynamited.

    432

    To stop the traffic in Sherbro Island General Charles Turner concluded in 1825 a treaty with its rulers putting the island, Turner's Peninsula and other places under British protection.

    433

    To this trade Grenville put a stop, as far as lay in his power.

    434

    Toby took the lead, and the demons, Death and Gabe disappeared as Katie rounded the corner of the palace.  The angel released her and raced into the palace and up a set of stairs.  They ascended several floors, until Katie was sucking wind bad enough to stop.  Toby didn't wait for her, and she stumbled forward.  The interior of the palace was unlit, and the darkness of evening crept into the hallways.

    435

    Toby was wrestling with a bush and didn't respond.  Katie breathed deeply and pushed forward, wanting very much to stop and sleep but suspecting she'd never awaken if she did.  She didn't have enough food cubes to drive off more than one more demon attack.  They'd have to find Rhyn and Gabe fast.

    436

    Today, there is virtually nothing in the medical armamentarium that can stop the damage unleashed by moderate-to-severe head trauma.

    437

    Two of the climbers clawed them apart, pulling Dean from him, just as Cynthia reached the front door, screaming for him to stop.

    438

    Unable to stop shaking, she at least was able to breathe again and pulled his rich scent into her lungs.

    439

    Unless you've got a bigger sleeping bag, we'd better stop now.

    440

    Up to 1839 no effort was made to stop the trade, but in that year the emperor Tao-Kwang sent a commissioner, Lin Tsze-sii, to Canton to put down the traffic. Lin issued a proclamation threatening hostile measures if the British opium ships serving as depots were not sent away.

    441

    Up to the time when the religious zeal of the emperor Zeno put a stop to the Nestorian school at Edessa, this " Athens of Syria " was active in translating and popularizing the Aristotelian logic. Their banishment from Edessa in 489 drove the Nestorian scholars to Persia, where the Sassanid rulers gave them a welcome; and there they continued their labours on the Organon.

    442

    Volunteers and militia were used to being called out to stop violence.

    443

    Was he going to stop sniping long enough to let her explain?

    444

    Washington put a summary stop to the whole proceeding.

    445

    We can stop right here if you want, Carmen.

    446

    We didn't band together to stop her, because she had …dirt on all of us, he explained.

    447

    We need to get to safety, and I don't have enough food to blow up the amount of trees it'll take to stop a herd of demons.

    448

    We provide our clients with full expert assistance throughout every step of the formation process, however our service does not stop there.

    449

    We shall deal with it more fully below in relation to the modern and more complicated class of machinery; and this also applies to the ordinary stop or single cylinder, and small platen machines, both of which have been in use many years, and are still in demand.

    450

    We then made a stop in an area of rocky ground and scattered acacias where we got excellent views of two Karoo Long-billed Larks.

    451

    We were then invited to carry out trials on planting bamboo to stop landslides from further developing.

    452

    We'd better stop, or I'm going to get into trouble again.

    453

    We'll be friends again and you'll stop treating me like I've got the plague? he asked, half-teasing.

    454

    We'll stop the destruction of green belt I mentioned earlier.

    455

    Well, I'm starving and if you don't stop that, I will most certainly ruin these eggs and have to start over.

    456

    Well, it wasn't going to happen this time, so she might as well stop whining and get the chores done.

    457

    What can we do in terms of a code of conduct to stop you from getting a savage beating?

    458

    What did they do to stop it getting worse in the future?

    459

    What if that weapon had a taste for blood and didn't want to stop?

    460

    Whatever reason you have for talking about her this way – just stop.

    461

    Whatever reason you have for talking about her this way – just stop.

    462

    When Alexander had won the victory of Arbela, and occupied Babylon and Susa, he met (in the spring of 330) with strong resistance in Persia, where the satrap Ariobarzanes tried to stop his progress at the "Persian gates," the pass leading up to Persepolis.

    463

    When are you going to stop doing that?

    464

    When he didn't stop, she stamped her foot.

    465

    When signals are to be sent from either station the operator turns the switch c out of contact with the stop b, and then operates precisely as in open circuit send '" i ing.

    466

    When the retort is to be charged, an iron stop or barrier is placed in the lower mouthpiece, and the door closed.

    467

    When the stream consists of drops following one another in single file, no such increase of section is possible; and then the constancy of the total stream requires a gradual approximation of the drops, which in the case of a nearly vertical direction of motion cannot stop short of actual contact.

    468

    When will DMTV stop jumping on the reality TV bandwagon?

    469

    While Dean was no closer to finding the identity of the bones or the person or persons trying to stop him from doing so, the introduction of Jennifer Radisson into the equation was, to him, a welcome addition.

    470

    While, however, the court of Peking was honestly endeavouring to suppress the foreign trade in opium from 1839 to 1858 several of the provincial viceroys encouraged the trade, nor could the central government put a stop to the home cultivation of the drug.

    471

    Who has not asked himself how it is that the French were not all captured or destroyed when our three armies surrounded them in superior numbers, when the disordered French, hungry and freezing, surrendered in crowds, and when (as the historians relate) the aim of the Russians was to stop the French, to cut them off, and capture them all?

    472

    Who'd think mighty-might would let a little thing like a boyfriend stop him.

    473

    Why …Ooohhh. she touched her face, recalling the stop at the clown's booth.

    474

    Why couldn't she stop thinking of him that way?

    475

    Why don't we stop and get pizza?

    476

    Why stop there when we can take what we want from either world?

    477

    Will Bottom ever stop making an ass of himself?

    478

    Will you stop worrying about me?

    479

    With a squeal of brakes Dean narrowly missed the rider in front, who shouted a profanity and spun sideways to a stop in the road­side gravel, miraculously maintaining balance.

    480

    With any luck, the worst part of her day would be missing her stop.

    481

    With less than a 50/50 chance of success, relatives of the late Doreen Ellis have had to stop legal action against Cape.

    482

    Would you stop that?

    483

    Xander can't even stop them!

    484

    Yeah.  Apparently Rhyn has gone on some rampage to kill Death.  Kiki wants us to go to the underworld and stop him.

    485

    Yeah. I guess I sort of passed out on him after the piss stop.

    486

    Yet he was able to recover Minorca and Florida in the War of American Independence, and he finally extorted a treaty wiCi Algiers which put a stop to piratical raids on the Spanish coast.

    487

    You came instead of sending someone to stop me?

    488

    You can ask the court for an order of restraint against your husband and stop him from coming anywhere near you if you're in fear of the man.

    489

    You can't stop them without us.

    490

    You can't stop them, Alex.

    491

    You can't stop us all.

    492

    You can't stop what comes!

    493

    You cannot tell an alcoholic to stop drinking because alcoholic to stop drinking because alcoholics will always be alcoholics and they will always fancy a drink.

    494

    You couldn't stop me from going back there again and check it out.

    495

    You have to stop plying me with booze or I'll think you have evil intentions.

    496

    You just feed, and I'll make sure you stop.

    497

    You mean, the father of the girl you slept with Monday who won't stop calling you?

    498

    You think that's going to stop me?

    499

    You want me to stop mothering you.

    500

    You were my next stop.