Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival . |
| 2 | Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death . |
| 3 | When Franz arrived with it Karen deftly plucked it from the sideplate and held up a hand to silence Whitlock 's protest . |
| 4 | Design 's effective denial of a social formative or linguistic-representational function further isolates itself from the academies traditionally orientated towards understanding and valuing these . |
| 5 | By embracing rather than plundering elements of jazz , soul and funk , Jamiroquai 's debut single on Acid Jazz , ‘ When You Gon na Learn ’ , served as the perfect foretaste to his future work and in the process instantly distanced him from the retro-funk-by-numbers style of his less talented peers . |
| 6 | If motherhood includes them in the community of women , poor parenthood also excludes them from the public culture of their own generation . |
| 7 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 8 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 9 | By using Yagüe as his intermediary , however , Franco effectively distanced himself from the horror . |
| 10 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 11 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 12 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 13 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 14 | Benny and Mortimer immediately launched themselves from the bushes , the rest of the Marines following , firing at any worshipper who had a weapon . |
| 15 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 16 | For example , yellow-orange CL of calcite generally distinguishes it from the darker red-crimson of dolomite , and feldspars are very bright blues , reds or greens compared with subdued violets and browns for quartz grains . |
| 17 | Liam Brady and his players certainly deserve something from the season , even if it is only a back door into Europe . |
| 18 | The driver gracefully unwound himself from the low-slung vehicle and stood up , stretching his back , unaware that he was being watched . |
| 19 | Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record : |
| 20 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 21 | These sections naturally follow one from the other , and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns . |
| 22 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 23 | Funny that no one has ever noticed Mrs Thatcher 's knock knees and pigeon toes , but then , the ever considerate television news cameras always film her from the knees up , so who 's to know . |