Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 2 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The phrase ‘ Protocols-style ’ carries a critical rhetoric , suggesting that the authors wished to distance themselves from the traditions of the conspiracy theory . |
| 5 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 6 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 7 | Indeed , at the Home Office Press Conference held to discuss the catastrophic crime figures for April to June 1990 , John Patten attempted to distance himself from the research by asking if Field was the member of his staff ‘ who wore an earring ’ ( Guardian 27.10.90 ) before stating that the work was exploratory and could not be regarded as definitive . |
| 8 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 9 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 10 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 11 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 12 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 13 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 14 | Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk . |
| 15 | SARFU had to distance themselves from the happenings at Ellis Park ’ , said French . |
| 16 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 17 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 18 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 19 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 20 | The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling . |
| 21 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 22 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 23 | Yesterday , Mr Major battled to distance himself from the scandal which has already engulfed four Cabinet colleagues . |
| 24 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |
| 25 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 26 | Indeed , most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file . |
| 27 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 28 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |
| 29 | To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life . |
| 30 | MARKETING MOVES aside , the fact that Radiohead have barred themselves from the 3,000-sales-and-you're-a-star indie party by signing to EMI means that , as stunning as ‘ Creep ’ sounds , it 'll probably chart at about Number 74 , hang around for a couple of weeks and fall back out again without so much as a whimper . |