Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] from this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 2 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 3 | Something must be done to free her from this grip . |
| 4 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 5 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 6 | The Elves hid themselves in caves , woods and mountainsides and prayed to their gods that they would not be found , and that a hero would emerge to deliver them from this evil . |
| 7 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 8 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 9 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 10 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 11 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |
| 12 | For that reason I have excluded them from this chapter , which is concerned with men holding offices of profit under the Crown . |