Example sentences of "keep [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could hardly keep himself from laughing out loud in anticipation : he crammed his fist into his mouth to stifle the outburst . |
| 2 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 3 | Graham 's back arched agonizingly and he used every last ounce of inner strength to keep himself from wrenching his hand off the pad . |
| 4 | The Doctor struggled to keep himself from slipping down the glowing tunnel , which he had entered first . |
| 5 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 6 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 7 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 8 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 9 | Brenda could n't manage a smile , but she shut her lips tight to keep herself from crying — which the Brownie Guider noticed , although she did n't show that she had . |
| 10 | She was making an ineffectual effort to keep herself from trembling . |
| 11 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 12 | The lack of security of employment makes flexible working a kind of half-way house , and this half-way house contains a number of workers struggling to keep themselves from dropping into the abyss of the underclass . |
| 13 | I put my other hand up to my face too , and put my head down on my knees , trying to keep myself from going to pieces . |
| 14 | He told us , ‘ My temptation is to keep myself from getting involved with MRA . |
| 15 | All that time wasted meditating on death to keep yourself from coming too soon . |
| 16 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 17 | She twisted her face away and kept herself from crying out . |