Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on . |
| 2 | It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them . |
| 3 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Sir Edmund half-raised himself from his seat and pointed a finger straight at the monk 's face . |
| 5 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 6 | He could see a figure within the Lift detach itself from the group and glance quickly in his direction . |
| 7 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir Ralph did distance himself from his so-called faithful servant . ’ |
| 9 | Now I remember you quite strongly disagreed with the notion that in fact if you do n't know behaviour itself from w our own experiences , we behave differently in different situa in very similar situations and it 's based on our interpretation of the stimulus . |
| 10 | And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms . |
| 11 | ‘ The IAC consider it damaging for the Labour Party to regard the SDLP as their equivalent in Northern Ireland and the IAC believe the Party should distance itself from the SDLP . ’ |
| 12 | Elliott agreed to mount the operation and , as is often the custom with intelligence agencies when engaged in hazardous operations , decided to use a freelance agent so that , if anything went wrong , MI6 could distance itself from the affair and deny any knowledge of it . |
| 13 | Even before 1985 , Pacepa 's defection and still more the growing criticism of Ceauşescu 's human rights record in Congress made the United States government distance itself from him . |
| 14 | Much as CND may distance itself from these groups , its rhetoric and practice of opposition is an open invitation for their malign political presence . |
| 15 | The result , the result of such claims will be a rush to restore differentials and a general inflation in Local Authorities , with no increase in value of services for the community and I ask that the Labour Party should distance itself from this very mis-guided proposal for national wage proposals , minimum national wage proposals . |
| 16 | the moon itself from |
| 17 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 18 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 19 | By returning to Ockham House , she could distance herself from events and reclaim a reassuring degree of privacy . |
| 20 | I think you have done enough and must distance yourself from her possessive embrace . |
| 21 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
| 22 | Well first of all I must distance myself from the image that is presented by nearly all introductory textbooks of cultural anthropology . |
| 23 | Criticism of the Irish constitution itself from both clergy and laity produced one first change in the constitution . |
| 24 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 25 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 26 | Ask the child to write the word himself from memory . |
| 27 | Conviction oozes from every sentence like the very ichor of life itself from the metal life-support systems of the Bronze Giant of Fangorak . |
| 28 | Up to the sky itself from which the sun and moon and stars shine upon this earth . |
| 29 | This released a cocktail of dust and chemicals into the atmosphere , destroying the nitrous oxides which under normal conditions help protect the ozone layer itself from destruction . |
| 30 | Kaye made the gorgeous patchwork bedspread herself from oddments of Liberty and Thai silk . |