Example sentences of "detach himself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Station Chief detached himself from the group . |
| 2 | The work begins in classic Hegelian style : ‘ Mental life begins with an undifferentiated state in which the Ego and its objects are not yet distinguished ; consciousness is filled with impressions and perceptions while the bearer of these contents has still not detached himself from them ’ ( 1978 : 63 ) . |
| 3 | Edward , who appeared to have detached himself from the proceedings , stared out of the window . |
| 4 | The solicitor detached himself from another group and joined them . |
| 5 | Bishop detached himself from the watching crowd . |
| 6 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |
| 7 | In the first place Braque had detached himself from visual appearances to a much greater extent than Cézanne , who while he was obviously very much aware ( if only instinctively ) of the purely formal or abstract side of painting , relied nevertheless , in his still lifes and landscapes , on an exhaustive study of the ‘ motif ’ as his point of departure , although it is worth mentioning that in his articles Emile Bernard had suggested that Cézanne 's vision ‘ was much more in his brain than in his eye ’ . |
| 8 | Catching sight of Philippe Bonard , who had uncharacteristically detached himself from his students and was standing alone at the far end of the terrace , she went over to him . |
| 9 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 10 | As she drew closer , a burly , red-faced police sergeant detached himself from the crowd and moved towards her , notebook in hand . |
| 11 | Irish Tom detached himself from the group of workmen and swaggered , grinning , along the corridor . |
| 12 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 13 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 14 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 15 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 16 | Jotan detached himself from an alcove beside the main door . |
| 17 | Lucenzo detached himself from the crowd and ran up the stairs two at a time , seeing that she 'd frozen . |
| 18 | Finally Alain detached himself from Claudine 's clinging hands and turned to the house , collecting Jenna with a very hard hand on her arm . |
| 19 | Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis . |
| 20 | Edward was hobbling to a Humber and the little man detached himself from it and came to him . |
| 21 | He is not committed , by his education , to rejecting or despising the community in which he was brought up ; but he should be given the means in some sense to detach himself from it . |
| 22 | Peter tried to detach himself from Molland as they left the solicitor 's office . |
| 23 | One waxed jacket detaches himself from the group and approaches a lone drinker across the bar . |
| 24 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 25 | Detaching himself from this passionate domesticity , he composed in his mind the kind of picture Rembrandt would have made of it . |
| 26 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 27 | At other moments Minton , detaching himself from his sailors , might dance alone , as Ruthven Todd has described : |