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Example sentences for "prevent them"

  • Without loss of time, I collected all the soldiers at hand, and placing myself on the left of the ascending enemy, I endeavored to prevent them.

  • But yet they ought to, if "there is nothing to prevent them.

  • Thousands of crimes are committed every day, and God has no time to prevent them.

  • The Church never enabled a human being to make even one of these exchanges; on the contrary, all her power has been used to prevent them.

  • It would seem, therefore, to be the part of wisdom and sound policy to remove as far as practicable the causes which produce intrusions upon the public lands, and then take efficient steps to prevent them in future.

  • The distressing casualties in steamboats which have so frequently happened during the year seem to evince the necessity of attempting to prevent them by means of severe provisions connected with their customhouse papers.

  • Frances, sitting out this July under her tree of Heaven with the Times, had a sense of things about to happen if other things didn't happen to prevent them.

  • It seemed that there was nothing to prevent them marrying to-morrow if they liked.

  • What's to prevent them bringing up five or six coppers and planting them there?

  • It must, however, be added, as an act of justice to railway officials, that their efforts are never-ceasing to prevent them.

  • There is no possible precaution that can be taken, which is not taken to endeavour to prevent them.

  • It was of no great extent, as there were rocks at either end; but if the dhow could reach it, she might be run on shore, and the blacks landed before the boats could reach her to prevent them.

  • Her power, then, was not strong enough to prevent them--but the time came.

  • The difficulty there is not how to make things grow, but how to prevent them growing.

  • She had to mother the whole tribe, and it took all her patience and tact to prevent them reverting to their old violent practices.

  • Any dark night they may take it into their heads to come up, and there won't be nothing to prevent them, for the rustling of the stream among the rocks would cover any little noise they might make.

  • It requires the bayonet to prevent them; and for that reason it is wrong to prevent them.

  • Since they manifestly depend on the Sensibility of the Skin, the Nature of the Humours, and the Changes of the Weather from Heat to Cold, in Order to prevent them, in the first Place, the Skin must be rendered firmer or less tender.

  • I was at that time powerless to prevent them doing so, so I took away all their horses and ammunition, at which they did not seem very pleased.

  • Matters were rather in a critical state, as treachery was rampant, and many burghers were riding to and fro to the enemy and arranging to surrender, the faithful division being powerless to prevent them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abstinence from; auld wife; competent judge; divers places; domestic affairs; hundred other; immense number; little spirit; made bread; prevent burning; prevent further; prevent scorching; prevent them; prevent warping; prevented from; preventing conception; preventive medicine; preventive treatment; put them; remember once; say that; speak truth; spiritual house; sufficient force; tender notes; words shall not pass