Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Just one goal in their favour is keeping them from relegation . |
| 2 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 3 | No , it was not discomfort keeping her from sleep . |
| 4 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |
| 5 | We were talking earlier , and I understand you liked to ride at the weekends , and you 're often competing on your horse , er , ha , if you were to have a fall , and erm , you had a back injury , or erm , you sustained an injury that would you keep you from work for a substantial amount of time , er , how would you feel , would you be able to pay your premiums ? |
| 6 | But the company is confident the banks will keep it from bankruptcy by accepting a reorganisation plan . |
| 7 | Not even the bitter dawn cold could keep us from standing , time and time again , to feast on the sights that rumbled by : mountains , dwellings , beasts and people ; then tiny white-sailed craft on the timeless blue of Lake Titicaca . |
| 8 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 9 | Back at the hotel we hear the drums begin again and continue long into the night , past the time when exhaustion overcomes the excitement which keeps us from sleep for many hours . |
| 10 | ‘ To keep me from temptation , ’ he said . |
| 11 | After being convicted of controlling prostitutes , Sandra Brown , 45 , hired eminent barrister Richard Ferguson , QC , to keep her from jail . |
| 12 | Artwatch , led by Professor James Beck , has called the tour hasty and sought unsuccessfully to keep it from happening . |
| 13 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
| 14 | Rather than attempting to stifle mental conflict and to keep it from consciousness as would have been the trend in nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture , modern cultural trends instead encourage acting-out and expression of the conflict as being more ‘ healthy ’ than repression . |
| 15 | They had no Chief Rabbit — no , how could they ? — for a Chief Rabbit must be El-ahrairah to his warren and keep them from death : and here there was no death but one , and what Chief Rabbit could have an answer to that ? |
| 16 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 17 | He spent several weeks calling on the homes around his church to discover the needs of the community and the inhibitions which kept them from church attendance ( Schuller 1974:81 ) . |
| 18 | School , and things that painters have taught me , even keep me from painting as I want to . |
| 19 | I realise you were desperate to protect him and keep him from harm . |
| 20 | It kept her from worry and it kept her from settling down to write those applications which would lead to progress in her career of serious music . |