Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this is tricky if you 're driving , but ask your passengers to distract you with an Ossianic ballad to keep you from thinking about the importance of Santa Claus Land and The Happy Haggis takeaway to our great Scottish heritage . |
| 2 | Sadly , operational commitments prevented you from coming to the ‘ Open Day ’ and I will be pleased if you and Superintendent Pakes can attend this meeting , which will be held at our Riverside Headquarters in Keynsham , starting at 10.15 . |
| 3 | You know , trying stop you from walking on the |
| 4 | This explanation is then offered to others with the intention of getting them to agree that circumstances conspired to prevent you from performing with the excellence and flair that you would , in the normal course of events , have displayed . |
| 5 | It seems to me from looking at the figures within the projections that what North Yorkshire are are planning is that we 'll have a return to that widening black area that 's part of that particular diagram . |
| 6 | ‘ There is no man or devil who will stop me from going to the home of my family , ’ said Sir Henry angrily . |
| 7 | Before the meeting , Mr Russell , one of the four executives , issued a writ against the other original shareholders , claiming an injunction to restrain them from voting on the resolution . |
| 8 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 9 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
| 10 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 11 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 12 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 13 | The germanium layer confines the charges just under the skin , preventing them from bumping into the surface and scattering from their designated path through the transistor . |
| 14 | Cambridge players were angry but could not express their views because manager John Beck has banned them from talking to the Press . |
| 15 | By the testimonies of such as rugby 's Gareth Chilcott and boxing 's Frank Bruno , to name but two of many who have acknowledged how sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters , it can claim an increasingly influential niche in society . |
| 16 | It is true that relief from the parish might be obtained in case of distress , but there would always be those whose pride would forbear them from applying for the pittance — at least they would avoid the humiliating and rigorous means test . |
| 17 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 18 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 19 | As I mentioned earlier , they glide round in an arc and it is a hell of a job to prevent them from plunging into the weeds some way along your own bank . |
| 20 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 21 | Has he considered whether the western powers should purchase some of those warheads to prevent them from falling into the hands of non-nuclear powers that have no idea how to maintain or destroy them ? |
| 22 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 23 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 24 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 25 | even prevented him from getting to the outside privy ( ‘ Jericho ’ ) must have been severe indeed … |
| 26 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 27 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 28 | He diagnosed that his concentration on getting to know the clergy and the church people prevented him from moving among the wider community as he should . |
| 29 | Keeping him from snapping at the heels of Normandy is bad enough . ’ |
| 30 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |