Example sentences of "him from [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his expressed preference for the worship of the formless does not prevent him from recognizing that God is personal to those who need to feel his presence and embodied to those who desire to experience his touch . |
| 2 | He does not equate absolute Truth with particular instances of truth but that does not prevent him from recognizing that particular instances of truth , while not embodying absolute Truth , are nevertheless necessary to convey the meaning of absolute Truth . |
| 3 | When she sees , to her astonishment , by the light of the lamp , that her mate is the god of Love , she does not attack him , but it is too late to stop him from flying away . |
| 4 | He gambled and drank , and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages … . |
| 5 | Midge 's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable . |
| 6 | Only her own determination had prevented him from vomiting it back . |
| 7 | They then barred him from watching Prisoner Cell Block H , before extending it to a total television ban . |
| 8 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 9 | Under the Newman system , each Producer would be allocated a Story ( Script ) Editor to free him from writing overheads , and a pool of ( mostly staff ) Directors actually to make the programmes . |
| 10 | After preaching on two or three occasions to the people of Kidderminster , the Vicar banned him from preaching any more . |
| 11 | In October 1643 the Commons took away his lectureship at Aldgate and banned him from preaching . |
| 12 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 13 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 14 | The National Security Court was abolished and President Mohammed Siyad Barre was obliged to stand down as chairman of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ) , the constitution preventing him from holding both posts . |
| 15 | But , since no one he had met in Wimbledon Islamic circles seemed to use it , it did not prevent him from holding his head up in the staffroom . |
| 16 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 17 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 18 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 19 | It might not have prevented her feelings for him from developing as they had , but it would certainly not have caused a change in the atmosphere in this place , and he might have remained livable with . |
| 20 | The installer had come highly recommended , but that had n't prevented him from installing our boiler without one ! |
| 21 | I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam , Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely , but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage , ‘ I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 22 | Alexander 's interests and those of Athens were thus opposed ( which did not stop him from minting copiously in coinage designed for easy trade with Athens ) , and the opposition was inherited by every Macedonian king till Philip , who ended it by seizing Amphipolis for good . |
| 23 | In all the galaxy of great lords his comparatively junior status restricted him from proffering advice and suggestions . |
| 24 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 25 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 26 | His mood also deterred him from ringing Dottie Banks . |
| 27 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 28 | ‘ Would a thing like this stop him from staying in power ? ’ |
| 29 | That way we 'll keep him from getting between us and the Ridgery . ’ |
| 30 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |