Example sentences of "prevent [pers pn] [prep] seeing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 2 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 3 | That is a fairly complicated question , which may confuse people and prevent them from seeing our present need clearly . |
| 4 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 5 | FitzAlan could prevent her from seeing the Queen … confine her somewhere in Winchester … |
| 6 | He looked in that direction but the blindfold prevented him from seeing who had spoken . |
| 7 | The rockdust prevented her from seeing if she had been successful in her kill . |
| 8 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 9 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 10 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 11 | She was floating along the aisle of a dimly lit church , the only reality the beautiful white dress she was wearing and the man waiting for her at the altar , and even he was shrouded in a mist , preventing her from seeing his face . |
| 12 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 13 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |