Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 2 | In other words , whilst appearing to criticize the antisemitism of Streicher and The Protocols , the author does not wholly distance himself from the traditions of antisemitism . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 4 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 5 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 6 | Fewer and fewer Labour people can any longer distract themselves from the common assertion that Mr Kinnock is surrounded by men who are more able and winning than he is . |
| 7 | He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland . |
| 8 | Regional roots aside , the band always wisely distanced themselves from the now-dead scene — but , as Andy candidly remarks , ‘ everybody said that , did n't they ? |
| 9 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 10 | I watched Schanberg in Phnom Penh struggling almost schizophrenically to divorce himself from the celebrity that he had become over the years and re-enter the personality he had had before . |
| 11 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |