Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] he from [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 2 | Certified accountant Tony Berry , former chairman and chief executive of the Blue Arrow employment agency and one time darling of the City , faces action by the Department of Trade and Industry to disqualify him from acting as a company director , following publication of a highly critical DTI inspectors ' report into Blue Arrow 's management . |
| 3 | Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza . |
| 4 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 5 | The need to do this could arise when time and space prevent him from having immediate contact with his source of succour , as would occur for example , on hunting expeditions . |
| 6 | Denis patiently instructed Joey in what to do and he and Michael kept him from talking too loudly . |
| 7 | Bishop levelled his gun , but Tiw prevented him from getting a clear view of the target . |
| 8 | He ex husband George Hailes pleaded not guilty to cruelty , but magistrates banned him from keeping a dog for 6 months and ordered him to contribute towards prosecution costs . |
| 9 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 10 | There were Sundays when Dadda did n't come to lunch , when depression kept him from stirring out of doors . |