Sentence examples for had always stopped from inspiring English sources

Like a heart, my imagination had always stopped at the moment of death.

There was something about the intimacy of the relationship — so physical — that led to other intimacies, though Verna had always stopped short of sex: it was a religious thing, she'd said.

"Of all the people who came by the farm, it was the political candidates who made the biggest impression on me," Governor Underwood said, remembering how they had always stopped to chat, as determined as salesmen.

The signaller admitted his standing instructions were to stop a train's movements immediately once it had passed a signal at danger, but in his previous experience of "two or three" Spads, the trains had always stopped safely.

To me, the story had always stopped in that courtroom with the grateful defendant taking the coat.

There were times he became so frustrated he had considered quitting but had always stopped himself because he knew it would be foolhardy when he had a family to support.

"I often tried to leave Tottenham but they have always stopped me going," he said.

There have been calls in Britain to ban the group, but the government has always stopped short of doing so.

But he has always stopped short of giving in to foreign demands, whether the Kremlin wanted closer integration or Europe more democracy.

But he has always stopped short of threatening to block any budget that will not reopen firehouses, or preserve any other city service.

That is the only distinction between his speeches and mine, that he has advocated and justified the taking of life where I have always stopped short in my justification, at property, at inanimate objects.