Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 2 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 3 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 4 | Our young men were quick-tempered , and i have had great trouble in keeping them from doing rash things . |
| 5 | Just one goal in their favour is keeping them from relegation . |
| 6 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'm keeping you from your duties . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Are n't I keeping you from something ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That is my fault , keeping you from your food . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm keeping you from your beauty sleep . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 13 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 14 | No , it was not discomfort keeping her from sleep . |
| 15 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |
| 16 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 17 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |
| 18 | Keeping him from snapping at the heels of Normandy is bad enough . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She 's going to die , and she 's keeping it from me . |
| 20 | She had n't , either ; she had sensed , in Tommaso 's treat , something that she could not identify , but that she wanted to smother , keeping it from her sister 's knowledge : so she pinched Franco really hard on the arm until he cried out , ‘ What was that for ? ’ |
| 21 | Whether it was the high volume of radio traffic , FAKINTIL sabotage , or his underlings keeping it from him , I 'll never know . |
| 22 | Presumably an item so secret that they were even keeping it from Dr Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 23 | Her mother said : ‘ The trouble we had in keeping it from you , Jessica . |
| 24 | ‘ And disappointment in your parents , too , for keeping it from you . ’ |
| 25 | There was silence for a moment , then he said huskily , ‘ Leonora — look , there 's no easy way to say this , but I hope you 're not full of some quixotic notion about keeping it from me if you find out you 're pregnant . ’ |
| 26 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 27 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 28 | But whatever you say , nothing can keep me from my home , my place of rest , out there in the open air , with a gravestone at my head ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do — but it does n't keep me from hoping that some morning you 'll come bouncing into the kitchen with a smile on your face — ’ |
| 30 | Maybe it 'll keep them from breaking in and rifling the till . ’ |