Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People will have to shift — on their own basis and in their own lives through coaxing and imposing , disengaging themselves from nationality . |
| 2 | Another possibility is that , by looking like a hawk , cuckoos are protecting themselves from predation — a hawk is less likely to attack another hawk than some other , easier prey . |
| 3 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 4 | It was the concrete embodiment of the principle of popular sovereignty : not the people choosing a government once every four or five or seven years , but the people continuously governing themselves from month to month and year to year . |
| 5 | When , in the past , men were confronted with the problem of differentiating themselves from animals they tended to do so in terms of human attributes such as self-consciousness , rationality , free-will , or the possession of a soul or a moral sense . |
| 6 | If , for example , an organisation purports to keep a list of undischarged bankrupts , but makes no effort to seek information on persons discharging themselves from bankruptcy , it will be contravening this principle . |
| 7 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 8 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |