Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This appointment , the lowest rung on the Church 's ladder , would not , however , have prevented him from undertaking a period of study at Bologna . |
| 2 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 3 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The last couple of times Yanto had seen him before joining the army , it had been touch and go . |
| 6 | The charges , filed in January 1989 , had accused him of ordering the shooting in 1986 of John O'Connor , an official of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America [ see p. 36680 ] . |
| 7 | the only bad news to come out of Cambridge was that Swindon 's Micky Hazard could be in trouble with the FA and the police who 've accused him of inciting the crowd |
| 8 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 9 | The local council has accused him of running a business from his home . |
| 10 | I had n't thanked him for doing the walls . |
| 11 | Now she 's completely upstaged him by finding a Viking relic over 1,000 years old . |
| 12 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 13 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 14 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 15 | Richard Baxter , during the one time he was asked to preach before Oliver Cromwell , had criticised him for weakening the Church by encouraging divisions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ONE-legged cricketer Ian Harris has been stumped by umpires who have banned him from having a runner to sprint his singles . |