Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this is tricky if you 're driving , but ask your passengers to distract you with an Ossianic ballad to keep you from thinking about the importance of Santa Claus Land and The Happy Haggis takeaway to our great Scottish heritage . |
| 2 | This explanation is then offered to others with the intention of getting them to agree that circumstances conspired to prevent you from performing with the excellence and flair that you would , in the normal course of events , have displayed . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no man or devil who will stop me from going to the home of my family , ’ said Sir Henry angrily . |
| 4 | Before the meeting , Mr Russell , one of the four executives , issued a writ against the other original shareholders , claiming an injunction to restrain them from voting on the resolution . |
| 5 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 6 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
| 7 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 8 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 9 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 10 | The germanium layer confines the charges just under the skin , preventing them from bumping into the surface and scattering from their designated path through the transistor . |
| 11 | Cambridge players were angry but could not express their views because manager John Beck has banned them from talking to the Press . |
| 12 | It is true that relief from the parish might be obtained in case of distress , but there would always be those whose pride would forbear them from applying for the pittance — at least they would avoid the humiliating and rigorous means test . |
| 13 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 14 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 15 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 16 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 17 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 18 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 19 | A stoic quality keeps him from talking about the problem , which is silly ; even Nicklaus discusses his back , made ancient by millions of swings and uneven leg lengths . |
| 20 | Imran Khan , Pakistan 's captain , has hinted a nagging shoulder injury might prevent him from playing throughout the World Cup winners ' tour of England this summer . |
| 21 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 22 | Souness has just heard that the SFA have banned him from sitting at the touchline for the remainder of the season , and yet again the tabloid press has pushed his tolerance beyond the limit . |
| 23 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 24 | In the normal course of events , the exercise by the tenant of a break-clause will prevent him from applying to the court for the grant of a new tenancy ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26(4) ; s69(1) defining " notice to quit " : s24(2) ) . |
| 25 | For this , the physiotherapist usually sits in front of the patient on a stool , in order to stabilize his pelvis and prevent him from folding in the middle . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 27 | She wondered wildly if a scratched finger would excuse her from supping in the hall so she would n't have to face the soldier again . |
| 28 | Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand . |
| 29 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 30 | Only the sudden arrival of three new boarders saved her from succumbing to the terror which filled her . |