Example sentences of "[vb pp] him from [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only her own determination had prevented him from vomiting it back . |
| 2 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 3 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 4 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 5 | If after the plaintiff has been harmed his damages are increased by his failure to have proper medical attention , this failure by him to mitigate his damage would have prevented him from recovering that portion of his loss which is attributable to his omission , and it is doubtful whether section 13(6) of the 1965 Act has a different effect . |
| 6 | This appointment , the lowest rung on the Church 's ladder , would not , however , have prevented him from undertaking a period of study at Bologna . |
| 7 | The installer had come highly recommended , but that had n't prevented him from installing our boiler without one ! |
| 8 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 9 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 10 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 11 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 12 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 13 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 14 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 15 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 16 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 17 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 18 | Even a slight awareness of A. S. Neill 's compassionate philosophy would have prevented him from making the inept link with the Nazis and racism . |
| 19 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 20 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 21 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 22 | And sadly , Olympic rowers are n't the only ones feeling the pinch … on the eve of a new international rugby season Gloucester 's World Cup hero Mike Teague is seeking compensation from the sport 's governing body Iron man Mike claims the shoulder injury he suffered while playing for England has stopped him from working as a builder and he 's lost between three and five thousand pounds in earnings . |
| 23 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 24 | Then he read a textbook of hers about the craft of the dramatist and it had stopped him from showing her anything for a year . |
| 25 | And maybe that was what had kept him from visiting this place these last five years : the knowledge that he could no longer share their unquestioning certainty . |
| 26 | If he had been young , nothing would have kept him from joining the Tuscan troops but as it was , he felt an old man and useless . |
| 27 | ONE-legged cricketer Ian Harris has been stumped by umpires who have banned him from having a runner to sprint his singles . |
| 28 | Souness has just heard that the SFA have banned him from sitting at the touchline for the remainder of the season , and yet again the tabloid press has pushed his tolerance beyond the limit . |