Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 2 | In the second section , he cuts himself off from his humble family and is influenced greatly by class distinctions . |
| 3 | Then he eased himself up from his straddle-legged posture over the small backyard shore , holding the cut artery open while the blood drained away . |
| 4 | And dangerous for the goat : a myotonic goat picking himself up from his umpteenth collapse of the day might wonder why natural selection had not taken its course long ago and dispensed with his unhappy breed . |
| 5 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |