Example sentences of "[pers pn] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ How dare you prevent me from making myself really sick , Matthew ? ’ he taunted . |
| 3 | How do you prevent it from happening again ? |
| 4 | We prevent them from taking risks , discourage them from taking physical exercise , and even deny their sexuality . |
| 5 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 6 | Well , skirmishes over language are a certainly a distraction , they prevent you from pursuing other national goals . |
| 7 | Telephone message forms are even better than a pad as they prevent you from forgetting to ask relevant questions . |
| 8 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 9 | In the legend of Theseus , in Greek mythology , he prevented himself from getting lost in the Cretan labyrinth by holding on to a silken thread . |
| 10 | He prevented her from rising , placing firm strong hands over her upper arms . |
| 11 | They first showed that the inhibitor had no effect on the rats ' ability to swim in general , nor , if the animals had already learned the maze by the time it was injected , did it prevent them from swimming it correctly . |
| 12 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 13 | The scale of the triumph of 1918 no doubt owed something to Lloyd George , but the fact of Unionist victory did not , for without the pact the party would certainly have won some of the Coalition Liberal seats that it prevented them from attacking . |
| 14 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 15 | Perhaps it prevented me from noting how rapidly the season seemed to have advanced . |
| 16 | Educated at home , she in turn taught her younger brothers and sisters , which irked her as it prevented her from pursuing her own studies . |
| 17 | I try to lead as normal a life as possible and not think about my condition or regret the things it prevents me from doing , which are not that many . |
| 18 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |
| 19 | She was already within arm 's length , only the door standing between them to prevent him from reaching her , and she clearly suspected nothing because she was moving in and as her hand passed close to the glass , he could see it in vivid pastel detail . |
| 20 | An example of her power : scared as he was , the boy Nikolai had managed to hold out against telling them of her destination until it was too late for them to prevent her from reaching it . |