Example sentences of "prevent [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rescuers , a couple , decided to take him to Henry 's new flat in Shepherd 's Market , which Finch had prevented himself from invading . |
| 2 | He had yet again prevented himself from destroying it . |
| 3 | In the legend of Theseus , in Greek mythology , he prevented himself from getting lost in the Cretan labyrinth by holding on to a silken thread . |
| 4 | Now , however , to his intense discomfort , Hugo found there was no way he could prevent himself from thinking about Greg Martin . |
| 5 | A short time later he could n't prevent himself from asking whether she did n't love him just a little . |
| 6 | Such was the Doctor 's rage , so accustomed was Louise to obedience , that she could not prevent herself from hurrying to execute his orders . |
| 7 | Alice could hardly prevent herself from openly exulting . |
| 8 | She could n't prevent herself from bursting out laughing . |
| 9 | ‘ And missed Nicole 's visit ? ’ she could n't prevent herself from asking any more than she could prevent the edge that had entered her voice . |
| 10 | She could not prevent herself from saying in a doubtful voice , ‘ You will be careful when you go to bed , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | Some seem to be able to cause their bodies to cure or to prevent certain diseases and even prevent themselves from acquiring genetically inherited ones . |
| 12 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 13 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 14 | We got on very well together and when after only two months with the company my immediate boss — the marketing manager , a sallow individual with a Solihull whine — suffered a perforated ulcer ( I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking this , the wall of his duodenum like a rusty car door , sharp flakes of oxidised tissue spearing into him ) , I got his job . |
| 15 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 16 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 17 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
| 18 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 19 | The tears on Cullam 's cheeks awoke in him a nausea and a rage so fierce that it was all he could do to prevent himself from striking him . |
| 20 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |
| 21 | The player needs to understand his emotions , what he is , how he functions and how to prevent himself from taking a negative role . |
| 22 | He had n't been able to prevent himself from catching her when she fell , and now the feel of her , cradled helplessly against his chest , sent shafts of agony through him . |
| 23 | ‘ If you like , ’ she replied , and knew she had infuriated him when he thrust his hands into his pockets as if to prevent himself from taking hold of her and shaking the daylights out of her . |
| 24 | He jammed his hands deep into his pockets as if to prevent himself from reaching out , touching her , taking her … |
| 25 | Quentin nodded , preventing himself from saying that Miss Lavant 's sweets and smiles were beside the point . |
| 26 | He knew his Val : he had watched her honourably try to prevent herself from adding that last remark . |
| 27 | And when told it was Victoria after the Queen and that the Queen was a wonderful lady , and her Prince was wonderful , too , she 'd had to bite her tongue to prevent herself from saying , ‘ Aye , she 's a wonderful lady all right , she 's still for bairns your size working twelve hours a day . |
| 28 | She was off-balance — nothing she could do to prevent herself from turning towards him as his grip pulled her in . |
| 29 | With her soaked blonde hair plastered in a rather mermaid-like curtain around her face and shoulders , and the wet black denim clinging tightly to her legs , she stared back , shivering in spite of the warm June night , unnerved by the piercing appraisal , but unable to prevent herself from returning the curiosity … |
| 30 | Outside , running the water into the misshapen saucepan , Sally-Anne found the stench indescribable , so much so that she began a desperate burst of coughing to prevent herself from vomiting . |