Example sentences of "prevented him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones 's modesty prevented him from speaking in public about the full extent of Crawford 's praises . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pain prevented him from thinking clearly . |
| 5 | This undiscriminating enthusiasm … prevented him from settling on a ‘ field ’ to cultivate as his own . |
| 6 | He had been advised that ethics legislation prevented him from combining the RNC job with outside interests which he had planned to pursue , including consultancy work and the fulfilment of a lucrative book contract . |
| 7 | Midge 's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable . |
| 8 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 9 | Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy . |
| 10 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 11 | The Barnes 's lawyers , he added , prevented him from testifying at hearings on whether the tour should be allowed . |
| 12 | Big Jimmy Hughes was Palace 's bulwark at centre-half throughout the decade 1910 to 1920 , and only the 1st World War prevented him from amassing a huge total of appearances for the club . |
| 13 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 14 | He looked in that direction but the blindfold prevented him from seeing who had spoken . |
| 15 | It is a pity that Fforde 's determination to present the Conservative party as decided individualists prevented him from exploring the confusion in the Conservative ranks indicated by his evidence . |
| 16 | This prevented him from taking part in yesterday 's pre-qualifying after he had waiting 10 years for the chance of an F1 drive . |
| 17 | Also in 1834 , his supposed misdemeanours forgiven and his contribution to Canada already recognised , he was appointed Superintendent of the British America Land Company , formed to develop the eastern lands of Quebec but bad health prevented him from taking up the appointment . |
| 18 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 19 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 20 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 21 | Bishop levelled his gun , but Tiw prevented him from getting a clear view of the target . |
| 22 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 23 | At first it had not mattered that the rain prevented him from going outdoors ; there was so much to talk about between himself and Uncle Walter ; they had not seen each other for twelve years . |
| 24 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 25 | The man fired a single bullet , and the decapitation of St Michael prevented him from suffering the same fate . |
| 26 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Illness prevented him from sitting the honours examinations and he received an aegrotat in 1849 , after which he spent a year in Scotland reading for holy orders . |
| 29 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 30 | The man 's Jacobitism clearly prevented him from securing any alternative office , and the division of the collectorship had to be resurrected . |