Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he from [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a letter to Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , the King , a devout Catholic , declared that his conscience barred him from signing the abortion bill into law . |
| 5 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Courtesy forbade him from asking the reason for this unexpected visit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Another indication of his value to the side was that the club and his colleagues were prepared to approve his occasional absences from the team at distant away matches because his commitments at school prevented him from making the Friday journey . |
| 11 | The man fired a single bullet , and the decapitation of St Michael prevented him from suffering the same fate . |
| 12 | Brown 's unpredictability and his refusal to endorse Clinton led to attempts by senior members of the party to prevent him from addressing the convention . |