Example sentences of "[adv] prevented [pron] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 2 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 3 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 4 | It effectively prevented him from working for another insurance company during that period . |
| 5 | The man 's Jacobitism clearly prevented him from securing any alternative office , and the division of the collectorship had to be resurrected . |
| 6 | But it also prevented her from claiming in her own right . |
| 7 | Ginny Leng 's Master Craftsman won Badminton in 1989 , but missed the last two runnings because of injury , which also prevented her from defending her European title last season . |
| 8 | Professor Fritz Eloff , the President of the powerful Northern Transvaal Union and Craven 's vice president for 20 years , substituted for him at IRB meetings abroad when Craven 's failing health repeatedly prevented him from attending . |
| 9 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 10 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 11 | ‘ Pleased to meet you , dear , ’ said Mrs Miller , who was endowed with so many rolls of fat that her stomach almost prevented her from reaching the counter . |
| 12 | He had yet again prevented himself from destroying it . |
| 13 | Lewis 's Allegory of Love ( 1936 ) , the book that made him known , was almost all written while he was still an atheist ; and his Christian polemics , which began as war-time broadcasts , never prevented him from winning secular admirers . |