Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 2 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 3 | I freed myself from the antiquated strait jacket of his verbose speech patterns . |
| 4 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 5 | The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away . |
| 6 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 7 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 8 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 9 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 10 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 11 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 14 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |
| 15 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |