Sentence examples for restrain you from inspiring English sources

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There's very little to restrain you.

I apologised with the weasel caveat, "Listen to me, then I won't have to physically restrain you".

"The Constitution was written not to restrain you, but to let you have your freedom, but also to protect your privacy".

It urged: "We must now look forward, not back". It is very difficult to look forward when your past continues to restrain you.

(The friend I saw the movie with reminds me that I found its bittersweet sentimentality less than compelling on celluloid too: "I had to practically restrain you from fleeing the theater," he told me the other day).

When they landed, the couple were sent to wait in the airport's detention centre, where surely a one-act play led the uniformed audience through their tumultuous backstory, ending at dawn with the cashmere moment their eyes first met, and them emerging into the bright Chennai sunlight in the sort of love you can only find after cabin crew have literally had to restrain you.

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"The city is constantly restraining you," Das said.

Those include a felony conviction; illegal drug use; misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence; a legal determination of being a 'mental defective'; being in the country illegally; a dishonorable discharge from the military; and being the subject of a court order restraining you from harassing, stalking or threatening an intimate partner.

Now you have the cat restrained, you need to open his mouth.

If you wanna go but your partner's restraining you, don't be afraid to be stern about it.

This may be as subtle as standing in front of a door, or obstructing your attempts to leave the conversation by blocking you from the front, or as direct as restraining you physically by any means.

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