11.   If the browser battle were a prize fight, the referee would stop it and award Microsoft a victory by technical knockout.

12.   If the race had been a boxing match, a referee would have stopped it in the first round.

13.   If this had been a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

14.   In fact if this had been a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

15.   It looked as though time would run out, but the referee stopped the clock because United defenders were standing over the ball.

16.   Johnson stood back up, but the referee stopped him, mercifully, for the first time in his career.

17.   Jordan said referees usually stop a fight at the first sensible opportunity after such a recommendation.

18.   Lynch said if the referee had not stopped the fight, he would have thrown in the towel the next round.

19.   Myself, I kept playing until I saw the referee stop the play.

20.   Shortly thereafter he hammered Rosales with the right uppercut, and the referee stopped the bout.