Example sentences of "extricate from " in BNC.
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| 1 | An immediate sequel to the incident was that when two of the Tennant sons were retrieving the bullock from the kirk , it lost one of its beautiful horns while being extricated from the ruined pews . |
| 2 | Tutilo must somehow be extricated from such opprobrium as he had not earned , no matter what penalties he might deserve for his real offences . |
| 3 | She finished scribbling her details on the back of the old envelope that she had extricated from her bag . |
| 4 | It was argued in chapter 6 that the physicality of artefacts makes them much harder than language to extricate from the particular social context in which they operate , and that for this reason they pose a particular problem for academic study . |
| 5 | I was amazed to see Sid extricate from his pack a mass of ironmongery , rope , loops and various boots . |
| 6 | With straining eyes he watched small fragments , meaningless to the lay eye , delicately extricated from the tangle of earth about the roots and the soft turf beneath them , cased in plastic , and labelled . |