Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 32 | WILLIAMS : I know now how to express myself , but I really know but one effectual and honourable way to disengage yourself from the dangerous situation you are in . |
| 33 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 34 | seeks to liberate itself from the Greek domination of the Same and the One … as if from oppression itself — an oppression certainly comparable to none other in the world , an ontological or transcendental oppression , but also the origin or alibi of all oppression in the world . |
| 35 | Heterodoxy or heresy originally arises as opposed to doxa , which takes the shape of ‘ orthodoxy ’ to defend itself from the heretical challenge . |
| 36 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 37 | Accordingly , while congratulating the Association on its endeavours , may I make a plea to the members of its Committee to restrain themselves from the political tactic of eyewash and puff and to conduct themselves , so far as the Law Society are concerned , in a straightforward , honest and co-operative manner ? |