Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] from [adj] [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 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since neither headquarters nor division executives discuss or resolve either the attributions or the frustrations , both may eventually begin to distance themselves from each other . |
| 6 | If Jane Leeson had been a woman to examine her motives she would have absolved herself from any accusation of spite . |
| 7 | On the issue of regional government , I do not want to distance myself from English history , but I recognise that Whitehall government is a long way from Manchester . |
| 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 | So long as such men as Willaert , Verdelot , and Arcadelt held posts in Venice , Florence , and Rome that is , until the mid-century or after Italian music can not be said to have emancipated itself from northern tutelage . |
| 11 | Now , under the impact of guilt and remorse motivated by the positive side of the original ambivalent feelings for the father , the ego sought to defend itself from further conflict with its id by erecting safety measures which would protect it from such distorting and stressful impulses . |
| 12 | A driver had wrenched himself from another machine and was running back . |
| 13 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 16 | Because of the ever-present restlessness , the attempt by people who are in pain at all times , to overcome the pain or to reach out , to speak up , in demonstrations and protests — even just the manner in which the people have to carry themselves from one day to another . |
| 17 | Many Titfords over the years , we know , have uprooted themselves from one place to go and settle elsewhere . |
| 18 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is as amazed as I am that Labour Front-Bench spokesmen refuse to dissociate themselves from that position , and therefore stand to reject ’ alien investment ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 21 | ‘ The class of lads and young men who spring up in every city ’ , wrote Sir John Gorst in The Children of the Nation ( 1901 ) , ‘ have emancipated themselves from all home influence and restraints . ’ |