Example sentences of "[to-vb] herself from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 2 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 3 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 4 | She gave Victoria a banana whenever she saw her and would tell Melanie to help herself from the baskets of nuts . |
| 5 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 6 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 7 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 8 | Thus the quarrel between Megara and Corinth , which drove the former to detach herself from the Peloponnesian League in 461 and join Athens , was originally over boundary land . |
| 9 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 10 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 12 | More often , it turns into loss of direction or of purposeful organization , because no one is willing to separate herself from the rest in order to take charge . |
| 13 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 14 | Instantly , she was filled with the need to protect herself from the hopelessly vulnerable way that made her feel . |
| 15 | It is another for the Prime Minister to distance herself from the policies of the government of which she is head . |
| 16 | The thought of Norman 's discomfiture at finding her gone cheered her a little and she pressed her foot down on the accelerator , anxious to distance herself from the three of them , to reach the safety of home . |
| 17 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 18 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 19 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 20 | Despite her determination to be happy , she still suffered from chaotic dreams , and quickly plunged into everyday activity to save herself from the terrors of her own mind . |
| 21 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
| 22 | As Bill has sharpened his image to match his growing political fortunes , so Hillary cast aside her intellectual reserve to transform herself from a dowdy schoolma'am type in heavy glasses to a glamorous , designer-dressed head-turner who would grace any State function . |
| 23 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 24 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 25 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 26 | She was just about to investigate when a long , shuddering breath from the man at her feet reminded her that it might be as well to remove herself from the scene before the winded assailant recovered enough to take his revenge . |
| 27 | If Rainbow were left to her own devices , she would undoubtedly now choose to remove herself from the taxi altogether , and pace back and forth in the lay-by , enjoying the comparative peace of the rain and the fumes and the roar of the juggernauts until she could get the show back on the road once more . |
| 28 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 29 | It is meant for me , Lily thought : hardly able to drag herself from the journey she had just made ( bitter enough surely ? ) into the past . |