Example sentences of "prevented [pron] [prep] [v-ing] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The man fired a single bullet , and the decapitation of St Michael prevented him from suffering the same fate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 16 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |