Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adaptation work should help to overcome or remove any obstacles that prevent you from enjoying the use of your present facilities . |
| 2 | But , as I have said , your opinion on this should not ( except in a completely unarguable case ) deter you from taking the problem each way . |
| 3 | If you get a hardware problem of any kind here it actually inhibits you from completing the software . |
| 4 | Not to mention the classes of thirty or more , and all the other sources of frustration that prevent you from delivering the service you should , and doing the job as you would like . |
| 5 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
| 6 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 7 | Just to make sure that nothing stops you from having the best , we 've arranged some excellent flexible finance schemes . |
| 8 | Mars is in Gemini and in the travel angle of your solar chart adds weight to Jupiter and Venus in Leo and no power on earth can prevent you from following the dictates of your heart . |
| 9 | I do not want to mislead you , or to deter you from making the right personal decision . |
| 10 | The concentration on detail and the speaker 's reaction might prevent you from grasping the speaker 's meaning anyway . |
| 11 | ( As you will see from Section 1.3 , this does not prevent you from distributing the disk storage requirements across any number of disks and directories . ) |
| 12 | This is only a warning , and it will not prevent you from updating the SPR . |
| 13 | This is only a warning , and it will not prevent you from updating the SPR . |
| 14 | The return of the proxy form will not prevent you from attending the meeting and voting in person should you wish to do so . |
| 15 | The book proved very popular but I was left with a nagging regret that my limitations with a camera had prevented me from portraying the district in colour . |
| 16 | ‘ The owner tried to stop me from boarding the yacht . |
| 17 | The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal ; I was n't going to put my face near those teeth . |
| 18 | " Only my deep devotion to you sir , and a thought for my future acceptance at Court , prevents me from repaying the compliment . " |
| 19 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 20 | Anyhow , my alcohol affected state prevents me from recalling the fee we paid Swindon ? |
| 21 | ‘ I know full well that , frankly speaking , prostitutes are bad , but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them … . |
| 22 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 23 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 24 | He paused , frowning while staring ahead at some of the other riders , then he said , ‘ Excuse me — I must stop them from taking the wrong track . ’ |
| 25 | A , a mountaineer , roped to his fellows , cut the rope in order to prevent them from dragging the leader of the party to death . |
| 26 | keep them from sucking the |
| 27 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 28 | A long prison sentence is the penalty for an unlicensed firearm and to keep the three men on bail , year after year , with this terrifying threat hanging over them was a most effective way to deter them from exposing the monstrous injustice of their treatment either in the media or with the European Commission of Human Rights . |
| 29 | When the challengers , who have a bigger budget and more style than the host body , wanted to open their own village , the ACOC barred them from using the words ‘ America 's Cup ’ . |
| 30 | But this does not disqualify them from using the word , any more than the English who displaced the ancient Britons are disqualified from continuing to use the name ‘ Britain ’ ( no doubt to the irritation of their southern neighbours , the Bretons of Bretagne ) . |