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put a stop to |
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put a stop to something and put an end to something to bring something to an end. I want you to put a stop to all this bad behavior. Please put an end to this conversation. put a stop to something to stop something put an end to something I wish I could put a stop to those annoying phone calls. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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All places submitted to the Mahometan, whose insolence increased every day with his power; and nothing after the defeat of the Portuguese was supposed able to put a stop to the progress of his arms. But what all England did not know De Vac had gleaned from scraps of conversation dropped in the armory: that Henry was even now negotiating with the leaders of foreign mercenaries, and with Louis IX of France, for a sufficient force of knights and menat-arms to wage a relentless war upon his own barons that he might effectively put a stop to all future interference by them with the royal prerogative of the Plantagenets to misrule England. Vronsky said something silly, which it was easy to put a stop to, and I answered as I ought to have done. |
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