Example sentences of "[to-vb] they from [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 2 | Bob Hopkins quotes the view ( see Church Planting II , Grove Books , page 21 ) that the parish boundary at its worst is ‘ a line drawn round thousands of people to protect them from hearing the Gospel . ’ |
| 3 | Draw a number line to read in equal spaces from unc The building at the side of this page has an elevator which carries people up or down to save them from climbing the stairs . |
| 4 | The building at the side of this page has an elevator which carries people up or down to save them from climbing the stairs . |
| 5 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 6 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 7 | A , a mountaineer , roped to his fellows , cut the rope in order to prevent them from dragging the leader of the party to death . |
| 8 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 9 | I 'm still doing sex education at schools and look like it 's changing a lot cos there 's a lot more to do there , a lot more emphasis on Aids , that 's why they 've got to ki , teach kids in primary school , we 've got to prevent them from getting a disease . |
| 10 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 11 | Long mike leads need to be properly wired to prevent them from becoming an aerial . |