Example sentences of "[conj] had prevent [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eight o'clock , and Folly was cursing the cowardice , or whatever it was , that had prevented her from discovering Luke 's number and ringing to refuse the invitation . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 4 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 5 | Roger Gernet , hereditary warden of the royal forests of Lancaster , had seized this opportunity to exact from them an ox for winter pasture and a cow for summer pasture , and had prevented them from taking housebote and firebote in the forest . |