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  • The girl boldly seized the other side of his lunch tray, to prevent him from leaving.†   (source)
  • To prevent further disaster, someone ran onto the road and wrote DROP HERE.†   (source)
  • Lockhart stopped abruptly in the middle of counting the number of murders he had prevented.†   (source)
  • It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy.†   (source)
  • We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease.†   (source)
  • Tonight Sam Westing would wreak his revenge unless she could prevent it.†   (source)
  • No more windows have been broken, though there has been an incident involving a pair of scissors; however, we will do our utmost to prevent a recurrence.†   (source)
  • At the top was an unlit plywood vestibule with a door that prevented winter drafts from rushing down.†   (source)
  • But it was hard getting used to his new, erect posture, which prevented him from slumping on the sofa with the rest of us.†   (source)
  • However, you're working to prevent our Lord's coming, and that's why we can't tolerate you.†   (source)
  • That something prevents you.†   (source)
  • Papaw even prevented Jimmy from using him as a referral on his Armco application.†   (source)
  • The heavy SS presence prevents him from approaching.†   (source)
  • So the sacrifice you made to save us prevented us from being a family.†   (source)
  • We will never understand why this tragedy happened, or what we might have done to prevent it.†   (source)
  • But there wasn't a shred of self-control left in him; he couldn't have prevented the tears, he knew that.†   (source)
  • My mother hoped her gift would prevent other families from having to go through what we'd suffered.†   (source)
  • To prevent me from winning a videogame contest.†   (source)
  • I ran the rope tightly into the notch, to prevent the oar from slipping down.†   (source)
  • Philadelphians were desperate for anything to prevent or cure yellow fever.†   (source)
  • They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected every day.†   (source)
  • Your grandfather's love for you prevented him from challenging the Church.†   (source)
  • He was placed on a different tier to prevent contact with McMillian.†   (source)
  • The crib had high, slatted sides to prevent the child from getting out.†   (source)
  • Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either.†   (source)
  • Their incentive was not heaps of money, but preventing Count Olaf from doing something horrible to them in order to get heaps of money.†   (source)
  • The State paraded before you witness after witness who, by their own admission, testified either to get out of jail or to prevent themselves from going to jail, or, in the case of Mr. Zinzi, to prevent himself from being sexually molested.†   (source)
  • She had one foot outside, the other inside, against the door, to prevent it from springing shut.†   (source)
  • I realized as I continued that I had assumed his wheelchair would be a barrier; that his disability would prevent any kind of sensual aspect from creeping in.†   (source)
  • Without the hogs to tend to, he could easily have been there even more than usual, preventing Luke from ever sneaking out.†   (source)
  • Prevents sunburn …†   (source)
  • Like a shower's going to prevent imminent starvation.†   (source)
  • But the committee had no power to prevent demolition of houses, or even to gain a stay of execution.†   (source)
  • I had the sudden urge to hug Gordy, and he had the sudden urge to prevent me from hugging him.†   (source)
  • And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history.†   (source)
  • Rigged laws and "tests" prevented African Americans from voting.†   (source)
  • A disease preventative measure.†   (source)
  • "What prevents us from creating our own dinosaurs?" someone said.†   (source)
  • We boarded up the windows of our ground-floor apartment, and I helped my parents tape Xs across the windowpanes to prevent the glass from shattering.†   (source)
  • "They aren't preventing him from working.†   (source)
  • It'd prevent a lot of confusion."†   (source)
  • He also said the salt water was good for healing the pain and preventing tetanus.†   (source)
  • "They want to prevent whatever new disease he's spreading."†   (source)
  • It was her belief in the value of effort itself that prevented her from buying a television set.†   (source)
  • When Behula's bridegroom was fated to die of snakebite on their wedding night, did building a steel fortress prevent his death?†   (source)
  • I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you'll say it's my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up.†   (source)
  • As if his materialization is preventing her from keeping certain shadows at bay.†   (source)
  • He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night.†   (source)
  • And if I do, I obsess in such a precise way as to prevent even a drop of disorder.†   (source)
  • I believed that the Cultural Revolution was necessary to prevent revisionism and capitalism from taking over China.†   (source)
  • Robbie could not prevent himself asking, "Who's it addressed to?†   (source)
  • Some of them were very violent, and there had been a mad rush for shelter earlier in the day when one appeared with a sharp machete and was only prevented from doing serious harm by two men who restrained him with the help of a strong rope tied round his waist.†   (source)
  • Dodge threw himself at it to prevent it from targeting Alyss.†   (source)
  • Its whole purpose is to prevent the atmosphere from becoming lethal.†   (source)
  • I did nothing to prevent it.†   (source)
  • Anyone who provides information leading to capture of Scarlet Guard operatives or the prevention of Scarlet Guard actions will be awarded conscription waivers, releasing up to five members of the same family from military service.†   (source)
  • Hanna had petitioned to let Dot come to school in her oversize Prada handbag—all the girls in Beverly Hills did it, after all—but Rosewood Day said no. So to prevent separation anxiety, Hanna had bought Dot the snuggliest Gucci bed money could buy and left QVC on her bedroom TV during the day.†   (source)
  • A metal fence prevented him from seeing anyone on the ground level.†   (source)
  • I think everyone in the neighborhood has tried to think how they could have prevented it.†   (source)
  • Angry at Phillip for not doing anything to prevent all of this.†   (source)
  • They spoke of eternal youth enjoyed outside the confines of loops, of jumping back and forth from future to past with impunity, suffering none of the ill effects that have always prevented such recklessness—in other words, of mastering time without being mastered by death.†   (source)
  • Nothing, nothing that anyone could say would prevent her from going back to that place again.†   (source)
  • Glenn A. Goldberg - Former Executive Director of the California Consortium for the Prevention of Child Abuse.†   (source)
  • How could she prevent scarring?†   (source)
  • This was the 1950s, years before the advent of cholesterol-lowering drugs and aggressive measures to prevent heart disease.†   (source)
  • He tripped twice more before he developed a pace that kept his legs far enough apart to prevent the shoes from hitting each other and then he moved into deeper snow.†   (source)
  • "What if I can't prevent it?"†   (source)
  • At length he came to a clearing in the forest where rock prevented vegetation from growing.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't let anything happen to them, the boy or girl, if I could possibly prevent it."†   (source)
  • Then he gracefully stepped off the dock into the canoe, placing his feet carefully to prevent the canoe from capsizing.†   (source)
  • He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, "Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?"†   (source)
  • The Nurse clan had been in the faction that prevented Bayley's taking office.†   (source)
  • Unlike the other floors, guards stood at the landing, preventing me from simply walking to Maxon's door.†   (source)
  • Most culturists, like George, were biologists; they knew nothing about preventing contamination.†   (source)
  • Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.†   (source)
  • Yours, Anne Dearest Kitty, A bad case of flu has prevented me from writing to you until today.†   (source)
  • I did everything I could to prevent that from happening.†   (source)
  • PRINCIPALS FOR THE DAY (OR, THE INVENTION CONVENTION DETENTION SUSPENSION PREVENTION†   (source)
  • Everything was lost, I had fallen off the map: the disorientation of being in the wrong apartment, with the wrong family, was wearing me down, so I felt groggy and punch-drunk, weepy almost, like an interrogated prisoner prevented from sleeping for days.†   (source)
  • Some help prevent or fight cancer; others fight infections.†   (source)
  • Prevents infection.†   (source)
  • Cowboy operations you're supposed to prevent.†   (source)
  • Delphi is trying to prevent that curse.†   (source)
  • To prevent them reading his mind, tinfoil hat at all times.†   (source)
  • Maraa Isabel wants to prevent a pregnancy.†   (source)
  • If you work for the suicide prevention team, you didn't do a very good job, did you?†   (source)
  • Instead, he presses a button on the dashboard that prevents air circulation.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow maybe he would try to call Tony, he would try to make Tony show him exactly what REDRUM was and if there was any way he could prevent it.†   (source)
  • Back where lots and lots of teachers hovered to prevent scenes like this.†   (source)
  • A form of preventive medicine.†   (source)
  • A judge had agreed and issued an order preventing Mrs. Thomason and her mothers' group from interfering.†   (source)
  • That might prevent them from harming you.†   (source)
  • Fallujah had become their safe haven, an anti-capital of Iraq dedicated to overthrowing the interim government and preventing free elections.†   (source)
  • I will take him home to see him buried," and no white man nor black man would have stopped me from doing it and I swear before God Almighty, had anyone stood before me to prevent me from doing it I would have struck them down.†   (source)
  • Anatole was prevented from accepting that post by the inconvenience of living in a two-meter-square room with a bucket of his excrement for company in the Thysville penitentiary.†   (source)
  • It swings the blade feebly, not enough to cut me, but there is nothing I can do to prevent its fall.†   (source)
  • It must've been like painting rust preventative on metal.†   (source)
  • I wiped quickly under my eyes to prevent any smudges.†   (source)
  • But she never prevented Corrine from visiting.†   (source)
  • As they'd never heard of anyone doing it, they weren't going to do anything to prevent it.†   (source)
  • They come and go as they please, the way they always have, unless we prevent them.†   (source)
  • Or prevent them from even meeting.†   (source)
  • No one thought to prevent the great Laura Keene from entering the box.†   (source)
  • It wasn't really about where she went, in my opinion: It was the motion she liked, which prevented just about everyone from seeing her being weak.†   (source)
  • The men used jets of live steam to thaw dirt and prevent newly poured cement from freezing.†   (source)
  • Well, prevention is cheap.†   (source)
  • But something kept him awake, prevented him from sleeping.†   (source)
  • He wasn't being nervous; he was being prevented.†   (source)
  • So far, Willem's position as a minister had prevented direct action against him and Tine, but he was watched, he said, more closely than ever.†   (source)
  • Practical reasons, unfortunately, have prevented me from taking action.†   (source)
  • He would be careful to send out flank security, to prevent straggling or bunching up, to keep his troops moving at the proper pace and at the proper interval.†   (source)
  • This is to prevent people from walking around a mile high.†   (source)
  • These injuries are by no means impossible to foresee or prevent.†   (source)
  • It was my job to prevent it.†   (source)
  • An ounce of prevention, goes the saying.†   (source)
  • What's that supposed to prevent?†   (source)
  • Ammu had insisted that they sit separately to prevent them from fighting.†   (source)
  • Right now all Dee can do is contain her, prevent her from using her powers.†   (source)
  • No Law will prevent me from tearing your heart out on the street, Shadowhunter—†   (source)
  • There really is little the likes of us can ever do to prevent these things.†   (source)
  • That did not prevent them from forming a police jazz band which, incidentally, was excellent.†   (source)
  • Could I have prevented what happened to Missy?†   (source)
  • Nothing will prevent us from attaining the greater good.†   (source)
  • The tragedy that followed, she and her husband believe, was thoroughly preventable.†   (source)
  • To prevent conflict?†   (source)
  • Rhonda was clearly trying to nip at me, see if she could get a rise, but even knowing this didn't prevent the angry blood flush to my stomach every time she accused me of being a baby.†   (source)
  • To prevent anyone from drinking from the aluminum cup used to dip out the water, its edges were as jagged as the crown of a mock king.†   (source)
  • It'd be selfish to let her own fear prevent her from bringing her friend the peace she wanted—the respite from pain she deserved.†   (source)
  • No preventing it at all.†   (source)
  • VHL is associated with a preventable form of blindness.†   (source)
  • The police prevented it.†   (source)
  • She would lunge for the hindquarters, pinning his back legs to prevent escape.†   (source)
  • There seemed no way to prevent them.†   (source)
  • She walked quickly over to the mailbox to prevent the same thing from happening today.†   (source)
  • Nadia knew they had been swindled, such things were common, and Saeed knew it too, but preferred for a while to try to believe that something had happened to the man that had prevented him from returning, and when he prayed Saeed prayed not only for the man's return but also for his safety, until it felt foolish to pray for this man any longer, and after that Saeed prayed only for Nadia and for his father, especially for his father, who was not with them, and should have been.†   (source)
  • I felt almost as though my life itself were slipping away from me when I learned that Mother had ordered the front door locked to prevent me from going out again.†   (source)
  • He holds it, prevents it.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Jaimito felt broken by these failures and her reminders of how she had tried to prevent them.†   (source)
  • Two deacons wedged themselves around Brother Jackson as a preventive measure and two large determined-looking men walked down the aisle toward Sister Monroe.†   (source)
  • But in ripping it loose, I lost my balance and only Timothy's hand prevented me from falling in.†   (source)
  • Good medicine could have prevented all those deaths.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist thought hard: what to say to prevent or postpone his execution.†   (source)
  • I am prevented by law from owning land.†   (source)
  • There was enough artillery in Beekman's toy department to wipe out Red China and the Mau-Mau tribe of Africa, and I personally think some of the toy manufacturers could use a good course in preventative psychiatry.†   (source)
  • His body is clearly suffering from exhaustion, but something in his head is preventing him from sleeping.†   (source)
  • Anything to prevent another squad getting them.†   (source)
  • And he thought he had made his views obvious to Dick; indeed, hadn't they almost had a fist fight when quite recently he had prevented Dick from raping a terrified young girl?†   (source)
  • I used to think maybe they'd been installed not to keep the prisoners in, but to prevent their public defenders from running away when they realize how bad their cases are.†   (source)
  • This, however, had not prevented Beans from climbing the stairs to the bathroom no fewer than three times during the party.†   (source)
  • How could I have not seen and thus prevented this misery?†   (source)
  • The only things preventing me from being naked are my jeans and briefs.†   (source)
  • They walked down the wide, crowded Avenue, surrounded, it seemed, by an atmosphere which prevented others from jostling them or looking at them too directly or for too long a time.†   (source)
  • Prefects were responsible for preventing disputes, not provoking them.†   (source)
  • He tries to smile, but his split lip prevents him.†   (source)
  • I bit my lips continually to prevent them from freezing.†   (source)
  • The only way to prevent it-with chickens-is to clip blinders on them.†   (source)
  • The cages had elaborate bolts on the doors to prevent fiddling by primate fingers.†   (source)
  • Luma's biggest challenge with Kanue was preventing him from doing too much.†   (source)
  • Only one idea remained to him—Bigwig must be prevented from going out, for he was helpless.†   (source)
  • It was a horrid event, especially because the loss of lives was so preventable.†   (source)
  • She had folded it twice and fastened it with three staples to prevent our reading it.†   (source)
  • The noise of the machine, of course, prevented its occupants from distinguishing any word, but the menace of the open pursuit was apparent.†   (source)
  • But no matter how big you were, there was no preventing the brutality.†   (source)
  • But the safety to be gained here is from preventing the kids from riding shotgun, not from strapping them into a $200 car seat.†   (source)
  • During the night, James Hildreth and his men were hard at work trying to prevent the fire from spreading south.†   (source)
  • "That's the rule, it prevents problems.†   (source)
  • I snapped my arms down to prevent it from going over my head.†   (source)
  • We have cotton around the digits to prevent maceration.†   (source)
  • But Deets's great ability was in preventing ambushes.†   (source)
  • There is huge need for fistula prevention and treatment.†   (source)
  • Also, to prevent the rain from caving in our hole, we lined the top rim of the pit with sandbags.†   (source)
  • Both of these groups report that the main reason for deaths and injuries on amusement park rides is preventable error.†   (source)
  • I had to stay awake and prevent the plane from crashing!†   (source)
  • And also paid to prevent.†   (source)
  • That was one of many safety precautions Janice and Larry implemented to prevent Adam from injuring himself.†   (source)
  • My back pain, however, prevented me from rehearsing this with Mary.†   (source)
  • Parvi said that a local sher, a religious leader who doesn't like the idea of us educating girls, just declared a fatwa on me, trying to prevent CAI from building any more schools in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • The intent was to buttress the Border Patrol's efforts to capture immigrants and prevent migrants from crossing.†   (source)
  • The Japanese targeted corpsmen to prevent them from helping wounded Americans.†   (source)
  • And no one here can prevent you.†   (source)
  • Did it prevent droughts and floods?†   (source)
  • "You won't prevent me from doing my duty.†   (source)
  • I think they all knew they couldn't prevent it.†   (source)
  • They looked back, but the turn of the road prevented them from seeing far.†   (source)
  • There was no way I could have prevented it.†   (source)
  • There are constables at the doors—"to prevent further propagation of the species," it said in the newspaper.†   (source)
  • Now it was a matter of preventing more killing.†   (source)
  • Oh, but you could have prevented it!†   (source)
  • However, that did not prevent him from being aware that Alba was watching him.†   (source)
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