Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] from going " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riven wriggled his toes inside his boots in an effort to keep them from going numb . |
| 2 | I do hope there wo n't be any emergencies to keep me from going again tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 4 | She had failed to see him again ; her family , her brother Davide too , had conspired , she knew , to keep her from going into town until Tommaso had left again for his training barracks . |
| 5 | Rafiq says that storing hashish inside the skin of a freshly-slaughtered sheep is the only way to keep it from going stale . |
| 6 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |