1.   Then they scattered, stopping to read in the middle of Congress Street one name and then the other.

2.   Thinking it meant the arrival of a new doctor, she stopped to read the two names on it.

3.   And they stopped to read the letters of thanks.

4.   Have you ever stopped to read the rapturous blurbs that fill newspapers on the eve of the opening of big-budget movies?

5.   He catches the pass, stops to read the defense, ball-fakes, drives, steps back and pops a sweet jumper.

6.   Leaving, I stop to read the sign that greets visitors.

7.   People going about their business stopped to read them again and again wherever they were posted, to touch them sometimes in mute homage.

8.   Some stopped to read the blood-donation circulars posted on street lamps and make their way in the directions indicated.

9.   Very few of those going in and out stop to read.