Example sentences of "detach itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one end of a crate detached itself from the crates and began to steal away , edging slowly round in a half circle . |
| 2 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 3 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 4 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 5 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 6 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 7 | It had n't reached the zenith of its arc before a black shape detached itself from the shadows in the corner of the room and swooped down , taking the morsel in mid-air . |
| 8 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 9 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 10 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 11 | Instead , the endometrium will detach itself from the wall of the uterus ( a new lining will grow during the next month ) and both egg and uteral lining , together with a little blood , will be discharged from the vagina as the process of menstruation . |
| 12 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 13 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 14 | When the neural tube closes ( Chapter 2 ) , a group of cells detaches itself at the site of fusion and migrates to many parts of the body and differentiates into a wide variety of cell types . |
| 15 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |