Example sentences of "[vb past] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His mother tried to prevent him from having access to the phone but even that did n't stop him . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me why you tried to prevent me from finding out that I was a Corosini . ’ |
| 3 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 4 | The book proved very popular but I was left with a nagging regret that my limitations with a camera had prevented me from portraying the district in colour . |
| 5 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 6 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 7 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 8 | Only her own determination had prevented him from vomiting it back . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 11 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 12 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 13 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 14 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 15 | Roger Gernet , hereditary warden of the royal forests of Lancaster , had seized this opportunity to exact from them an ox for winter pasture and a cow for summer pasture , and had prevented them from taking housebote and firebote in the forest . |
| 16 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 17 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 18 | His rescuers , a couple , decided to take him to Henry 's new flat in Shepherd 's Market , which Finch had prevented himself from invading . |
| 19 | It was eight o'clock , and Folly was cursing the cowardice , or whatever it was , that had prevented her from discovering Luke 's number and ringing to refuse the invitation . |
| 20 | Illness had prevented her from going to Tenerife this year , but now there was always next year . |
| 21 | He really wished to prevent her from discovering life . |
| 22 | Summing up , we are concerned that the recession continued to prevent us from contributing to the funds of the RIBA at the same levels as in 1989 and 1990 and are far from complacent about this situation . |
| 23 | This explanation is then offered to others with the intention of getting them to agree that circumstances conspired to prevent you from performing with the excellence and flair that you would , in the normal course of events , have displayed . |
| 24 | I do not wish to oppose the previous order , although it is debatable — merely to refer to it in passing , to say that I hope that , when the Select Committee on Health takes evidence on the national health service trusts , no witnesses will be intimidated by threats of disciplinary action intended to prevent them from giving evidence . |
| 25 | But the true reason was that he wanted to prevent me from writing any more good poems about them . ) |