Example sentences of "but the [noun] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was uncomfortable , but the wood kept it from being cold . |
| 2 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 3 | This house belonged to a shipyard owner , but the Navy took it from him for the duration and now it 's a hostel for Wrens . |
| 4 | He looked in that direction but the blindfold prevented him from seeing who had spoken . |
| 5 | All the Suffolk sites have been designated ‘ open access ’ but the term covers anything from freedom to roam the entire area to footpath access alone , a CC spokesman said . |
| 6 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 7 | Soviet scholars and journalists could hint in their writings at problems in specific factories or could criticize particular managers or officials , but the censorship prevented them from generalising their observations into a critique of the system . |