Example sentences of "preventing him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 2 | Thailand 's leading conservationist , Sueb Nakhasatien , committed suicide in 1990 after complaining repeatedly that official corruption and a lack of resources were preventing him from acting effectively against wildlife poaching . |
| 3 | I subsequently established from Mr. Docherty 's mother that the other factor preventing him from living at home was the fact that his presence would have had an impact on the family 's eligibility for housing benefit and would have resulted in additional poll tax liability which the family simply could not meet . |
| 4 | Nor of preventing him from publishing the letters . |
| 5 | Karr reached out and held his arm , preventing him from getting up . |
| 6 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 7 | The National Security Court was abolished and President Mohammed Siyad Barre was obliged to stand down as chairman of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ) , the constitution preventing him from holding both posts . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , on becoming prime minister after Craigavon 's death in 1940 , Andrews was also at sea , his loyalty to old colleagues preventing him from bringing in new men . |
| 9 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 10 | A clip round the ear has more chance of preventing him from doing something a second time than bringing all these other agencies in . |
| 11 | An investor can invest in either domestic securities or foreign securities if there are no foreign exchange control restrictions preventing him from doing so . |
| 12 | Sheriff Michael Munro imposed bail conditions forbidding Cowans from going within half a mile of the Timex factory at Harrison Road and preventing him from approaching anyone known or believed by him to be member of the new Timex workforce . |
| 13 | this is a restriction on the debtor personally preventing him from disposing of or dealing in any property owned by him . |
| 14 | The trainer then has to decide whether the horse is being rather stubborn and refuses to work because he does not want to or because there is something preventing him from relaxing and settling down . |
| 15 | As a result , Mr Vafa , who was living in France at the time , says that allegations of violence made against him by his former wife and her family went unchallenged and resulted in the interdict preventing him from molesting and attacking his wife or members of her family . |
| 16 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |