Example sentences of "to keep them from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the elephants were in their new sanctuary , called Lebong Hitam , the army would dig a trench , with one very steep side and a solar powered electric fence on the other , to keep them from returning to their old haunts . |
| 2 | My job is to keep them from doing it . |
| 3 | Talk of magic in the Western World as a spent force : self-congratulatory accounts of cults that had been infiltrated , and discovered to be groups of pseudo-scientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon , or sexual obsessives using the excuse of workings to demand favours they could n't seduce from their partners or , most often , crazies in search of some mythology , however ludicrous , to keep them from complete psychosis . |
| 4 | Some pressure must also be applied to the top of the assembly to keep them from lifting apart . |
| 5 | It 's recommended that these are used in conjunction with brushes to keep them from clogging . |
| 6 | Riven wriggled his toes inside his boots in an effort to keep them from going numb . |
| 7 | It 's a great thing to keep them from and to me in those days . |
| 8 | In a tract written shortly before the 1715 General Election , Atterbury maintained that " the People " had been " fleec 'd so often " by the heavy taxes imposed by the Whigs to fight their wars , that " they have scarce enough to keep them from Perishing " . |