She did this, in part, to prevent herself from becoming dependent on a particular instrument.
Bush did everything she could to prevent herself being exposed in that way again.
"I'm focusing on delivering article 50," she replied, unable to prevent herself from answering an entirely different question.
Her art, she has written, is a form of therapy, a way of preventing herself from going out and killing someone, or herself.
Talulla grapples with the alienating act of emotionless sex with humans — the moral stopgap she's installed to prevent herself from eating people she loves.
And to prevent herself from freaking out, she fell back on something most novelists don't have recourse to: a martial-arts training.
Later, she said, binges on gummy bears and spice drops fueled her undergraduate research at Stanford; more recently, she found herself flushing handfuls of candy corn down the toilet to prevent herself from eating "just a few more".
(One of my favorite lines: after the mother claims that the reason she is so self-absorbed is to prevent herself from dying young, Bec responds "Mum, you are too old to die young").
Nuñez (a delicately outrageous Diana) is whizzing mid-pirouette when Acosta expertly catches her by the waist and spins her around at ever more accelerating speeds; the timing so tight that Nuñez can barely prevent herself laughing.
"I must talk to Manuela about dinner," she said and walked away into the house, slowly, deliberately, holding her back very straight, as if to prevent herself from breaking into a run.
