Example sentences of "keep [pron] from going " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commerce , Voltaire declared , was the base on which the greatness of our nation was built ; now it 's all that keeps us from going bankrupt . |
| 2 | Riven wriggled his toes inside his boots in an effort to keep them from going numb . |
| 3 | I do hope there wo n't be any emergencies to keep me from going again tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 5 | She had failed to see him again ; her family , her brother Davide too , had conspired , she knew , to keep her from going into town until Tommaso had left again for his training barracks . |
| 6 | Rafiq says that storing hashish inside the skin of a freshly-slaughtered sheep is the only way to keep it from going stale . |
| 7 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 8 | I put my other hand up to my face too , and put my head down on my knees , trying to keep myself from going to pieces . |
| 9 | You mean , have you kept me from going out ? |
| 10 | I could n't see his face any more with its closed , guarded expression which had kept me from going towards him ; now he was just a figure in a doorway , a symbol of home-coming . |