Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] from [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 If because risk had not passed to the buyer , the seller has to bear the loss , this does not necessarily excuse him from performing the contract .
2 She hated him and she hated what he was capable of doing to her , but her hate was n't enough to stop herself from feeling the forbidden pleasure of his hands on her body .
3 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 .
4 She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile .
5 They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ?
6 These valves also serve to trap any water which may accidentally pass the blowhole , and thus prevent it from entering the lungs , which would cause choking or drowning .
7 Equally , at some point before delivery , the seller will require the scale to rise to 100 per cent , because he will by then have completed the products ready for delivery , and cancellation will no longer relieve him from incurring the costs associated with performing the contract .
8 They are meant to appeal to Tamburlaine 's humanity and hopefully stop him from plundering the town .
9 On the right , Age addresses her gaze towards Death , thereby distracting her from cutting the Thread of Life joining Eternity to a representation of Clotho , seen resting on a cloud to the upper right corner of the plate .
10 High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony .
11 to restrict the buyer 's remedies ( e.g. to prevent him from rejecting the goods and to confine him to damages for breach of condition ) ;
12 ‘ Pleased to meet you , dear , ’ said Mrs Miller , who was endowed with so many rolls of fat that her stomach almost prevented her from reaching the counter .
13 For Svend not to keep the appointment he made , solely to pleasure himself with the attractions of Copenhagen , will be regarded as an act of arrant rudeness , and will almost certainly disqualify him from gaining the approval of my brother-in-law 's cousin who himself is an ex-patriate Dane . ’
14 If you get a hardware problem of any kind here it actually inhibits you from completing the software .
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