Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 2 | Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death . |
| 3 | Enquiry will focus on the social processes by which such a community , whose original members will have selected themselves , carves itself from the mainstream society , establishing demographic stability and a cultural identity . |
| 4 | The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and , with other material , is forced out after the baby . |
| 5 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 6 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 7 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |