Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang Peter from a callbox in Paddington station and asked if I could drop in to see him before going back . |
| 2 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 3 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 4 | ( 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 . |
| 5 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 6 | Unbalanced , he was forced to plunge his foot back in to stop himself from falling headlong . |
| 7 | It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart . |
| 8 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 9 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 10 | So in sense then that er the extent of your injuries really would not debar you from working offshore as far as you understand ? |
| 11 | It was the last of his nightly chores and he looked around once more to make certain that he had not forgotten anything before going up to the room where his young wife was resting . |
| 12 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 13 | He just stopped himself from reacting angrily . |
| 14 | Pink riding hats , turquoise waistcoats , stetsons ( Jane just stopped herself from asking where the corks were ) and they wore all these glories even when they were mucking out . |
| 15 | Carolyn just stopped herself from saying why . |
| 16 | Lexicographers will normally confine themselves to working on about 1000 of these . |
| 17 | Deafness , however , did not prevent him from going off to South Africa and taking part in the Boer War . |
| 18 | Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory works and the lack of studying before exams . |
| 19 | If you stall accidentally it is almost always because you are not aware of the low speed , etc. and therefore all the training in the world will not prevent you from responding instinctively because you are not at that moment aware that you are stalled . |
| 20 | Carrie asked them anxiously , and they only said that they had not seen him without saying how ridiculous the question was . |
| 21 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 22 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 23 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 24 | Before Jos could knock at the door , it was opened by a tiny old woman bent at such an angle that she could not see them without straightening up , her head cocked to one enquiring side . |
| 25 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 26 | If she could just keep them from swimming out of focus … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The emergency services have said while the restrictions will make their response time slightly slower the humps will not stop them from carrying out their duties . |
| 29 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 30 | The nineties have yet to prove themselves a kinder and gentler decade , but that should not stop us from looking forward again . |