Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source . |
| 2 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 3 | Providing the trophies , getting to know the people involved , and getting publicity obviously for ourselves from that , which has been very rewarding , very enjoyable . |
| 4 | As well as his chemical discoveries he had made a reputation for himself from his electrical investigations . |
| 5 | It 's every man for himself from now on in ! ’ |
| 6 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 7 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 8 | He left the cardboard box on top of his wardrobe , where it remained until 1973 , when he cleared away every trace of himself from 29 Champney Road . |
| 9 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 10 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 11 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 12 | Thus , one generation may be able to redistribute towards itself from succeeding generations only by coercion ( government policy ) . |
| 13 | Why has the LDDC changed the presentation of itself from that of a ‘ yuppie ’ development agency to an inner city concern ‘ working for the community ’ ? |
| 14 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 15 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 16 | At the sight of herself in the mirror , an image of herself from so long ago , all the shock came back , taking her by surprise . |
| 17 | Ruth asked him with trepidation , half anticipating a sudden dismissal of herself from his home . |
| 18 | They need to be rooted out of themselves from time to time . |
| 19 | What have I learned of myself from learning through Robert … ? ’ |
| 20 | Crawford explained , ‘ Throughout my acting career , I have always taken notes of myself from directors and from actors . |
| 21 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 22 | The first Qumran-style desert community was established by Pachomius around 320 — at precisely the time that the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome was gaining official sanction for itself from Constantine . |
| 23 | Entrainment by laminar flows — the fact that a jet , for example , draws fluid into itself from the sides — has been discussed in Sections 11.6 and 11.7 . |
| 24 | Over dinner at the Cafe Royal , she sat next to Guy and told him everything about herself from her birth in Whitechapel through to winning a place at Bedford College the previous year . |
| 25 | This alternative viewpoint is useful in itself from three perspectives . |
| 26 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 27 | Sometimes they fear that the strength of their passion will so endanger relationships which are important to them that they will shut down parts in themselves from which they believe the threat comes . |
| 28 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 29 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , left to themselves , many of the farmers who were between 45–64 years of age and had little formal training , saw little benefit to themselves from attendance at training courses . |