Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dominique uncoils herself from the driving seat and extracts herself elegantly . |
| 2 | Teddy disassociates himself from her and eats lots of broccoli almost with his mouth open , just to show how broad-minded he is . |
| 3 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 4 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |
| 5 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 6 | By pushing them into mannerism , Elvis distances himself from their demands , physical and psychological . |
| 7 | He no longer confides in he , as he did in the letter at the beginning , but distances himself from her . |
| 8 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 9 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 10 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 11 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 12 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 13 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 14 | Juliana Hatfield might not be a gender warrior or fight city hall , but distances herself from the herd of two-bit supposedly alternative US bar-bands by being outwardly conservative and inwardly maverick . |
| 15 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 16 | At the same time , by refusing to adopt a material ought , normative positivism radically separates itself from any suggestion that there is a necessary connection between law and any critical morality . |
| 17 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 18 | George protects himself from the stink of UB40 's ‘ witty ’ bile |
| 19 | Tod Richardson protects himself from burglars . |
| 20 | We use the words in the sense of a psychic process by which the mind protects itself from undue or unbearable pain , anxiety or conflict . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 22 | As Mrs Marsh unwedges herself from her seat , Mum wakes up and looks at me sharply . |
| 23 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |
| 24 | Beachcombing soaks up the hours , punctuated with crisp swims during which my scarf unknots itself from my breasts and drifts out to sea like a directionless jelly fish . |
| 25 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 26 | There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) . |
| 27 | One waxed jacket detaches himself from the group and approaches a lone drinker across the bar . |
| 28 | Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death . |
| 29 | Enquiry will focus on the social processes by which such a community , whose original members will have selected themselves , carves itself from the mainstream society , establishing demographic stability and a cultural identity . |
| 30 | By adopting the Freirian perspective , ASAP distinguishes itself from ‘ Scared Straight ’ programs . |