Example sentences of "[pron] from [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I can not stop someone from writing my life independently , as long as it is not libelous , but I try to put them off by saying I 'm considering writing my autobiography . |
| 2 | I would never discourage someone from trying to start a group . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , tennis is a very expensive game and the cost of shoes and rackets is substantial , but an additional £5 fee to be paid to the association for registration is hardly going to deter someone from seeking match play . |
| 4 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 5 | Unless it is submitted that prisoners have , on entering prison , surrendered all rights over their own bodies , in which case medical experimentation on them would be equally lawful , the case can not stand as authority for the proposition that there exists a duty , even as regards prisoners , far less at large , to prevent someone from refusing food and , a fortiori , medical treatment . |
| 6 | But I was very much in love with Isobel and that prevented my from looking too hard at the mess I had created . |
| 7 | It makes me incredibly angry to think what a brainless , totally impossible , ‘ perfect ’ image of womanhood the media present , and that so many of us , me included , are intelligent but ca n't seem to separate ourselves from wanting those ideals . |
| 8 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 9 | He had yet again prevented himself from destroying it . |
| 10 | Not that he could have stopped himself from remembering . |
| 11 | This doom he has brought upon himself ; in order to avoid seeing one thing he has , almost voluntarily , incapacitated himself from seeing at all . ’ |
| 12 | He jammed his hands deep into his pockets as if to prevent himself from reaching out , touching her , taking her … |
| 13 | He had n't been able to prevent himself from catching her when she fell , and now the feel of her , cradled helplessly against his chest , sent shafts of agony through him . |
| 14 | TREE surgeon Robin Teasdill , 34 , stopped himself from bleeding to death by holding the main artery of his leg together for 15 minutes . |
| 15 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 16 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 17 | Once he had obtained a post mortem report identifying the medical cause of death , that was taken to be the sole cause of death : the coroner reached the conclusion that there could be no other cause and so he precluded himself from considering lack of care as a cause . |
| 18 | Albert was the first to know the Mr Gregory had lost his seat but had to restrain himself from swinging from the Assembly Rooms chandeliers in celebration . |
| 19 | As Tolstoy himself concedes , in The Minister and the Massacres ( p 44 ) : Neither Gen Krasnov nor any other old emigre was seeking to extricate himself from sharing whatever fate attended those of their comrades who were in the equivocal position of being Soviet citizens . |
| 20 | He just stopped himself from reacting angrily . |
| 21 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |
| 22 | He could not stop himself from thinking about it and he shuddered , as he imagined again Simon 's hands around his neck . |
| 23 | Now , however , to his intense discomfort , Hugo found there was no way he could prevent himself from thinking about Greg Martin . |
| 24 | The answer , we suggest , is that Wagner now represented precisely what Schopenhauer had been before : a lifeline to save himself from drowning in his professional specialization , as he went further and further out into it . |
| 25 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 26 | The Doctor struggled to keep himself from slipping down the glowing tunnel , which he had entered first . |
| 27 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 28 | SHe could n't understand how , when he was clearly so wound up and frantic about his daughter 's development , he could stop himself from taking part in it . |
| 29 | The player needs to understand his emotions , what he is , how he functions and how to prevent himself from taking a negative role . |
| 30 | ‘ If you like , ’ she replied , and knew she had infuriated him when he thrust his hands into his pockets as if to prevent himself from taking hold of her and shaking the daylights out of her . |