Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] himself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 2 | He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland . |
| 3 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 4 | Did he feel he had invented the gun-for-hire designer by so firmly dissociating himself from any one house ? |
| 5 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |