31.   As bride and bridegroom exchanged vows, the rain stopped.

32.   As soon as they got to the beach, the rain stopped.

33.   At dawn, the rain stopped and the British warships departed.

34.   As the rain stopped and spectators kept up a deafening drumroll of support for the English, Danish kick after Danish kick flew over or around the net.

35.   At the crash site Friday, heavy rain stopped the recovery of human remains, which lie in two six-foot-deep craters in a soybean field.

36.   A few minutes later, the rain stopped.

37.   A week later, the rains came again, so the handyman checked the basement on the second evening and found no water when the rain stopped.

38.   Across much of the West it seemed the rains would never stop.

39.   But shortly afterwards, the dark clouds began to brighten, sunny blue skies appeared and the rain suddenly stopped.

40.   But when the rain stopped and all that grass dried, it was like gasoline waiting to be ignited.