Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves from a " in BNC.

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1 As I seem to have missed any further pronouncements from this source on this topic , I would be very interested to hear if anyone can shed any light on any recent attempts that the Catholic Church may have made in order to extricate themselves from a presumably somewhat embarrassing position .
2 Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath .
3 In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment .
4 They came out of the East End to save the charts from unrebellious tat and to save themselves from a life in and out of prison .
5 Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police .
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