Example sentences of "prevented [pron] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you take that kind of view , then of course Russell 's persistent emotionality and his characterization of the world in these personal terms is a failure , erm something that he was never able to overcome , something for all his passionate moral convictions prevented him from really seeing himself at one with other people . |
| 2 | Mr Reynolds was also shown the ward day-room and introduced to other patients to help him settle down , but his anxiety about his condition prevented him from really relaxing . |
| 3 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 4 | There was a core of hardness to him that prevented him from ever responding to her . |
| 5 | What they did not know was Kylie 's principles now prevented her from even touching them . |
| 6 | Its opposition to the Communist Party , in particular , prevented it from even attempting to mount a mass political campaign in favour of the Republican government . |
| 7 | Something behind it prevented it from fully opening and a dark , viscous substance that in the subdued light looked like a patch of oil was spreading from an invisible source and had begun soaking into the carpet . |