Example sentences of "[not/n't] prevent [pn reflx] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 2 | She could not prevent herself from saying in a doubtful voice , ‘ You will be careful when you go to bed , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | Such was the Doctor 's rage , so accustomed was Louise to obedience , that she could not prevent herself from hurrying to execute his orders . |
| 4 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 5 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 6 | We got on very well together and when after only two months with the company my immediate boss — the marketing manager , a sallow individual with a Solihull whine — suffered a perforated ulcer ( I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking this , the wall of his duodenum like a rusty car door , sharp flakes of oxidised tissue spearing into him ) , I got his job . |
| 7 | A short time later he could n't prevent himself from asking whether she did n't love him just a little . |
| 8 | She could n't prevent herself from bursting out laughing . |
| 9 | ‘ And missed Nicole 's visit ? ’ she could n't prevent herself from asking any more than she could prevent the edge that had entered her voice . |