Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him from [verb] [art] " 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 | Big Jimmy Hughes was Palace 's bulwark at centre-half throughout the decade 1910 to 1920 , and only the 1st World War prevented him from amassing a huge total of appearances for the club . |
| 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 | His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Courtesy forbade him from asking the reason for this unexpected visit . |
| 10 | Nor did his investment in the Virginia Company prevent him from advocating a total ban on tobacco imports . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 . |