Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 2 | Prince Albert , who did much to promote a concern for working-class housing , not least by dying himself from typhoid , gave his name to a model building for four families which , although again intended for artisans , had been rejected as too ambitious by the organizers of the Great Exhibition ( Fig. 37 ) . |
| 3 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 4 | There is one who stands apart , dissociating himself from his companions . |
| 5 | Walter Carew had placed the painting of himself further down , dissociating himself from his weaker , lecherous , spendthrift brother . |
| 6 | Althusser shared Sartre 's opposition to Stalinism 's emphasis on economism and technical determinism , dissociating himself from it not through an assertion of individual agency but through a reformulation of the Marxist thesis of determination by economic relations — redefined as a causal rather than a historical relation . |
| 7 | Did he feel he had invented the gun-for-hire designer by so firmly dissociating himself from any one house ? |
| 8 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 9 | She imagined him next morning parading in his gallery , cosseting his reputation , toadying to his rich clients , dissociating himself from whatever unpleasantness the Josephs faced . |
| 10 | That is absolutely incorrect , and I take it that the hon. Gentleman is dissociating himself from Labour Front Bench policy on the Maastricht settlement . |
| 11 | ’ He made a face , exonerating himself from such indelicacy . |
| 12 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 13 | These " necessary steps " , Bush said , included " condemning the [ May 30 ] operation , dissociating itself from it , and beginning to take steps to discipline Abul Abbas , the perpetrator " . |
| 14 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 15 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 16 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 17 | Society has an interest in protecting itself from activities which threaten to undermine the harmony within it . |
| 18 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 19 | Compare it with Joe Simpson 's Touching the Void and the weakness becomes apparent — the one an understated masterpiece , the other a marvellous , complex and overweening mess , defeating itself from within . |
| 20 | Just now ( but this can not last she thought , dissociating herself from the moment while she talked about boots ) just now she had reached security ; she hovered like a hawk suspended ; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly , not noisily , solemnly rather , for it arose , she thought , looking at them all eating there , from husband and children and friends … |
| 21 | He gave him a hand with a large oil drum , and then another , as Nell , tearing herself from her appointed task , dragged over a bench . |
| 22 | She struggled in his hold , pressing herself from him ; but he maintained his forceful hold on her and , looking into his face , she said , ‘ I 'm growing up . |
| 23 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 24 | She had an arm permanently bruised from protecting herself from beatings . |
| 25 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 26 | • Give artificial respiration if your child stops breathing , protecting yourself from burning by wiping his face first ( below ) or giving aid through a clean handkerchief . |
| 27 | Thoroughly angered , a thousand seamen , armed , we are told , with " cannon , guns , muskets , musquetoons , blunderbusses , pistols , swords , cutlasses , clubs , sticks , stones , bricks and other offensive weapons " surrounded the Exchange , some of them also regaling themselves from the contents of the stores of nearby wine merchants which had been broken into . |
| 28 | People will have to shift — on their own basis and in their own lives through coaxing and imposing , disengaging themselves from nationality . |
| 29 | And while they recognise the threat of this killer disease they are still faced with the dilemma of physically protecting themselves from it . |
| 30 | Another possibility is that , by looking like a hawk , cuckoos are protecting themselves from predation — a hawk is less likely to attack another hawk than some other , easier prey . |