Sentence examples for prevented himself from inspiring English sources

He says that he thinks he actually prevented himself from going to sleep, because he was afraid of dying in the night.

Francis has prevented himself until now to be entirely explicit on this much-debated question.

Felipe Massa reacted quickly to prevent himself from ploughing into Raikkonen.

It was all he could do to prevent himself from throwing himself at her feet.

To prevent himself going completely mad, he says, he occasionally doodled as well as signed.

Jerry Garcia used to have his guitars strung with heavier than usual strings, to prevent himself from playing rhetoric.

Anticipating a collision, Steck raised his arms to cushion the blow and prevent himself from being knocked off the face.

In the Guinness case, he wanted to prevent himself from being dubbed the most litigious man in America.

Scott Schoeneweis wrapped his hands around the sides of his Mets locker, seemingly trying to prevent himself from stumbling.

Now he makes films like no one else in the world, this polemicist who can never prevent himself from expressing himself poetically.

In one instance an adviser sold protection products to himself, his wife and a colleague to prevent himself from being demoted, the FCA said.