Example sentences of "prevented [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 2 | ‘ Kept you asleep in the morning , and prevented you from doing a proper day 's work . ’ |
| 3 | He had been advised that ethics legislation prevented him from combining the RNC job with outside interests which he had planned to pursue , including consultancy work and the fulfilment of a lucrative book contract . |
| 4 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 5 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 6 | Big Jimmy Hughes was Palace 's bulwark at centre-half throughout the decade 1910 to 1920 , and only the 1st World War prevented him from amassing a huge total of appearances for the club . |
| 7 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 8 | It is a pity that Fforde 's determination to present the Conservative party as decided individualists prevented him from exploring the confusion in the Conservative ranks indicated by his evidence . |
| 9 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 10 | Bishop levelled his gun , but Tiw prevented him from getting a clear view of the target . |
| 11 | The man fired a single bullet , and the decapitation of St Michael prevented him from suffering the same fate . |
| 12 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 13 | Illness prevented him from sitting the honours examinations and he received an aegrotat in 1849 , after which he spent a year in Scotland reading for holy orders . |
| 14 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 15 | His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 . |
| 16 | Another indication of his value to the side was that the club and his colleagues were prepared to approve his occasional absences from the team at distant away matches because his commitments at school prevented him from making the Friday journey . |
| 17 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 18 | Lowe continued his career until 1871 when he fell victim to a pulmonary disease which prevented him from joining the services for the deaf at the new St. Saviour 's Church . |
| 19 | They grew a new ‘ ear ’ on her stomach with grafts taken from her thighs ; the scab on the superficially burnt left side of her face lifted off almost in one piece , leaving behind the flawless pink skin of a teenager ; but even after a year in hospital and scores of painful grafts , the right side of her face was hideously scarred , her hair and eyebrows never grew again and a plastic plate fitted over her carbonized skull prevented her from wearing a wig . |
| 20 | ‘ Pleased to meet you , dear , ’ said Mrs Miller , who was endowed with so many rolls of fat that her stomach almost prevented her from reaching the counter . |
| 21 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 22 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 23 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |