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The proposed rules would have forbid export of a fairly large category of software that is routinely used in investigating systems for vulnerabilities.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2015

But I need not have forbid you; for I am sure this, by fair argument, is unanswerable—I know it is.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

I would have sought another interview with you, but I know the rules of your school would have forbid, and the only alternative remaining is to make this avowal, or be forgotten by you.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

In that case you have a lover whom I have forbid to you.

From The Lady of Blossholme by Haggard, Henry Rider

Prudence and delicacy alike ought to have forbid the camp of Tamasese to the feet of either Leary or Moors. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis