Example sentences of "prevented [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confident of winning the ball , Hove brought their full-back into the line , thereby giving them the overlap , but their rather mediocre handling and some excellent shadowing by Godwin prevented them from capitalising on this for much of the half . |
| 2 | He conceded that users ' huge investments in mainframe applications prevented them from moving to smaller systems . |
| 3 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 4 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 5 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 6 | Thank you for drawing my attention to your proposed exhibition , I did indeed receive your telephone message , but other pressures prevented me from responding to it before you had also handed in your portfolio . |
| 7 | Sadly , operational commitments prevented you from coming to the ‘ Open Day ’ and I will be pleased if you and Superintendent Pakes can attend this meeting , which will be held at our Riverside Headquarters in Keynsham , starting at 10.15 . |
| 8 | Jones 's modesty prevented him from speaking in public about the full extent of Crawford 's praises . |
| 9 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |
| 10 | He diagnosed that his concentration on getting to know the clergy and the church people prevented him from moving among the wider community as he should . |
| 11 | This undiscriminating enthusiasm … prevented him from settling on a ‘ field ’ to cultivate as his own . |
| 12 | The Barnes 's lawyers , he added , prevented him from testifying at hearings on whether the tour should be allowed . |
| 13 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 14 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |
| 15 | It effectively prevented him from working for another insurance company during that period . |
| 16 | Apparently indisposition had , in March 1748 prevented him from working on a plan for winter shelter of orange trees . |
| 17 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 18 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 19 | A lengthy illness prevented her from appearing on Alice Faye 's ‘ This Is Your Life ’ tribute a couple of years ago . |
| 20 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 21 | But only stubborn pride and the knowledge that Giles 's monstrous accusations were totally unfounded prevented her from fleeing to the Ladies ’ . |
| 22 | She sustained an injury to her hip which prevented her from caring for her husband when he was at home . |
| 23 | But it also prevented her from claiming in her own right . |
| 24 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
| 25 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |