Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 2 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 3 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 4 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 5 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 6 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 7 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 8 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 9 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
| 10 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 11 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 12 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 13 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 14 | Justifiably or not , the Soviet Union in the later Brezhnev years had provided no advertisement for socialism , and even communist parties in other countries had felt compelled to distance themselves from the Soviet model and the heritage of Leninism . |
| 15 | Unless they dared to absent themselves from the slow unfolding of the plan — would not their keen minds continue to be needed ? |
| 16 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 17 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 18 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 19 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |
| 20 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 21 | seeks to liberate itself from the Greek domination of the Same and the One … as if from oppression itself — an oppression certainly comparable to none other in the world , an ontological or transcendental oppression , but also the origin or alibi of all oppression in the world . |
| 22 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ We are confident we have done nothing wrong , but need to protect ourselves from the arbitrary and capricious actions of our adversaries . ’ |