Example sentences of "[pn reflx] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the penalty for estranging ourselves from Universe . |
| 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 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 4 | It is when we use our uniqueness to feel ‘ better than ’ that we separate ourselves from others and thereby create misery and suffering . |
| 5 | Stereotyping can be dangerous when it allows us to distance ourselves from others , and to fail to see the individual through the distorting lens of our own prejudice . |
| 6 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 7 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 8 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 9 | As soon as we removed ourselves from eyries at Television Centre and Broadcasting House , people began saying to us that the key subject we had to look at was one of portrayal and representation on air . |
| 10 | Let us pray today that we may be gentle with ourselves , guarding ourselves from relationships that might exploit us or be hurtful . |
| 11 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 12 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 13 | When John Armourer , from Robert Chamberlain 's manor of Gedding ( Suff. ) , needed sureties , he found them in James Tyrell ( himself from Suffolk but active in Wales ) , Robert Fiennes ( also of Suffolk ) , Arthur Pilkington ( from Lancashire but then resident in Essex ) and William Houghton ( of Worcestershire ) . |
| 14 | When John Armourer , from Robert Chamberlain 's manor of Gedding ( Suff. ) , needed sureties , he found them in James Tyrell ( himself from Suffolk but active in Wales ) , Robert Fiennes ( also of Suffolk ) , Arthur Pilkington ( from Lancashire but then resident in Essex ) and William Houghton ( of Worcestershire ) . |
| 15 | Trollope does not suffer much himself from prickings of conscience ( though whether his diamonds are real or paste is another matter ) . |
| 16 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 17 | Saddam Hussein says that he needs to protect himself from Iran . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He disentangled himself from Madra before dawn to share his watch with Bicker , and the two of them saw the sun come up . |
| 20 | ‘ Eric was so surprised he could n't stop himself from crying . |
| 21 | Then came the tears — Gascoigne simply could not stop himself from crying . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |
| 24 | Mr Endara was moved to distance himself from proposals in Washington to support anti-Noriega parties with CIA funds , describing the scheme as ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 25 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 26 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 27 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 28 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 29 | Whether he had perceived that by acceding to British demands he had permanently estranged himself from Russia is debatable . |
| 30 | He discharged himself from Hartlepool General Hospital yesterday and last night detectives were waiting to question him as part of their inquiries . |