Example sentences of "prevent she [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 FitzAlan could prevent her from seeing the Queen … confine her somewhere in Winchester …
2 ‘ You 'll look after him for me , wo n't you ? ’ she 'd said to me after we 'd got him unpacked and she could n't think of anything else which might prevent her from leaving .
3 JOHN SMITH , lecturer in the Law Department , warned Marian Jackson at the beginning of her second year that too much time spent with Dram Soc would prevent her from getting a first class degree .
4 Melody 's delight and incredulity were genuine , but it did not prevent her from taking the food and drink from his hands and bolting it as though she were starving .
5 Her mother said it was stimulating to be upset , and maybe it was , but that did n't prevent her from preferring the solace of the old wisdom .
6 I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind .
7 But his ex-wife believes he would prevent her from visiting the grave .
8 The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk .
9 Nothing barring a major disaster can prevent her from becoming a main attraction — Barbara Dennerlein is a star in the ascendant .
10 This did not prevent her from becoming , likewise , totally seduced by his example .
11 If Hilary Robarts thinks she has been libelled and seeks redress I ca n't prevent her from going to law . ’
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