Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
2 | It has already reduced it from a peak of 36,000 to around 26,000 . |
3 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
4 | I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits . |
5 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
6 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
7 | ( ‘ Your good influence and help has sometimes draw me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them . ' ) |
8 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
9 | ‘ It has completely dissociated itself from the ancient Macedonians ’ . |
10 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |
11 | Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates . |
12 | Imbert has decided not to sell anything from the show because of the poor state of the art market , and with Editions du Regard is publishing a book of the exhibition which will sell , at a loss , for FFr 250 . |
13 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
14 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
15 | At the end of the book , these opposing characters become closer and their real love for each other shows through the bitter shell that they hid under to protect themselves from the awful life they lead . |
16 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
17 | When a moth flies into range , it works out the exact speed and position of its victim and then flies out to pluck it from the air . |
18 | The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . ) |
19 | Taboos against touching , and against speaking the name of a dead person , are set up to protect them from the hostility of the dead as they see it . |
20 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
21 | Now villagers feel that AIDS sufferers should be treated with compassion , and that they are not a danger to others if it is known how to protect oneself from the disease . |
22 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
23 | He did n't pull his weight , but knew how to keep it from the consultants . |
24 | I thought of taking advantage , and went round to collect her from a dinner party . |
25 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
26 | It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place . |
27 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
28 | Moreover , the policing of the picket line was organised and controlled by local police officers according to a ‘ hearts and minds ’ philosophy : the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sensibly recognised that almost every family in Sheffield had connections with the steelworkers and was keen to ensure that the police did not alienate themselves from the wider community . |
29 | Pathologist Dr Godman Greywoode said her skull cap type helmet was of the best available quality … but the design did not protect her from an untypical side impact . |
30 | She fell to her knees by the head of her youngest son , cradled it , yet did not lift it from the snow . |