'pause doing' is not a valid phrase in written English.
A more appropriate phrase would be 'stop doing'. For example: "I paused doing the dishes so I could take the phone call."
This does not mean the pause does not exist.
The rocks gave me pause: didn't millions of Americans leave farms for good reason?
Here is a master at work, making a pause do the work of a comedian.
He's suspicious of mysticism and (long pause) doesn't want to believe in revelation.
That pause did not come from her; it came from the antipsychotic medication she had to take.
Did the incident this afternoon give members of Congress pause, did it remind them that they are grownups and how much, at every turn, there is to value?
That pause didn't last long, with demand underpinned by strong economic growth, says Zhou.
But it is now clear a pause did not mean the end of the project.
Overall, it concludes, the pause "does not materially alter the risks of substantial warming of the Earth by the end of this century".
To my disappointment, though, Smart Pause did not work with Netflix when I tried it.
