Example sentences of "[vb past] prevented him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 2 | Only her own determination had prevented him from vomiting it back . |
| 3 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 4 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 5 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 6 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 7 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 8 | Patrice Orfilat , a fearful , whimpering wretch bearing a grudge against Thorez whom , he assumes , had prevented him from being nominated as a PCF candidate for the 1936 elections , petrified at the thought of war and his own death , attempts to find a job in the Foreign Affairs Ministry , and is ultimately disdainfully rebuffed by an orthodox party member unperturbed by the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 9 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 10 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 11 | The remaining land had come to Clarence by the forfeiture of Thomas lord Roos , although dower rights had prevented him enjoying Helmsley itself . |
| 12 | A MALAYSIAN was jailed for five years in the capital , Kuala Lumpur , yesterday for biting off the finger of a policeman who had prevented him stealing a motorcycle . |