Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 2 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 3 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 4 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 5 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 6 | Charles Spencer comes on stage as the nice guy who has dissociated himself from the forced sale of tenants ' cottages , grieved over the disposal of historic treasures and heralded a new degage era of neighbourliness . |
| 7 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 8 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 9 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 10 | Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope , and its consequently segmented narrative . |
| 11 | Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them . |
| 12 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |