Example sentences of "[to-vb] him from [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’
2 If we are quick , we may be able to stop him from desecrating the site . ’
3 But though everyone acts for himself , his knowledge of what others are doing is supposed to be generally sufficient to prevent him from taking a lower or paying a higher price than others are doing .
4 Brown 's unpredictability and his refusal to endorse Clinton led to attempts by senior members of the party to prevent him from addressing the convention .
5 to restrict the buyer 's remedies ( e.g. to prevent him from rejecting the goods and to confine him to damages for breach of condition ) ;
6 The president and his senior staff shared a fervent conviction that legislators , administrators and the national media were resolutely opposed to all that Richard Nixon stood for and were determined to prevent him from making a reality of his policy intentions .
7 To prevent him from making a comeback after his deposition , his successor , Mustapha IV , had him strangled in 1808 .
8 So when the Wigan colliers threatened in 1792 to throw down the engines , they were seeking both to pressure the mine owner and to prevent him from reworking the pit with " blackleg " labour , also the likely object of Cornish miners who pulled up the ladders in a dispute of 1795 .
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