Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] themselves from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 2 | His fingers became fat maggots and detached themselves from his doughnut hands . |
| 3 | Although they paid a fee for the transmission rights , they saw the star-studded line-up as an opportunity to boost viewing figures and distanced themselves from any contentious affiliations by renaming the concert Freedom Festival . |
| 4 | When Isaiah had his vision of God in the Temple , he cried aloud in anguish that we lost : even the angels could not bear the sight of the divine majesty but shielded themselves from it with their wings , and he had gazed upon the Lord of Hosts with his own impure eyes . |
| 5 | ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. , |