Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste .
4 As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion .
5 It is clear that the core of the upper class certainly do differentiate themselves from the broader middle class , even if it suits them to call themselves ‘ middle class ’ when asked .
6 At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU .
7 Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague .
8 Tying pillows to their heads with towels to protect themselves from the larger falling lumps , they set off .
9 But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality .
10 He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive .
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