Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the next two days were spent in readying and arming a mixed squadron of available craft , merchanters all , but every one necessarily accustomed to using defensive artillery to protect themselves from the English pirates who infested the Norse Sea . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 3 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 4 | Their statement was interpreted as an attempt to distance themselves from the so-called ‘ Central Belt activists ’ who withdrew their strongly worded motion at the executive and voted with the six on the statement drawn up by Councillor Rob Gibson which regretted the MPs ' actions . |
| 5 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
| 6 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | They would need clothing and shelter for the extremes of weather , and weaponry to protect themselves from the wild animals and hostile tribes which roamed the desolate regions they were to visit . |
| 11 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 12 | But we wanted from the start to dissociate ourselves from the arrogant and ignorant belief that in some mysterious way English is superior to other languages , and that children who speak Bengali or Hindi at home should abandon these languages as soon as possible . |
| 13 | The dictates of self-preservation often ensured that the respectable young working woman dissociated herself from the known prostitute , since association with prostitutes rendered a woman 's character suspect to the police and could lead to her name being placed on the registration list . |
| 14 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 445 ) puts it : ‘ As in 1944–45 , employers and managers in a sense detached themselves from the dangerous appeal to the nation , over the heads of the nine million voters who were also affiliated to the TUC ’ . |
| 15 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
| 16 | BAe was keen to diversify , in order to protect itself from the cyclical swings of both civil and military aerospace manufacturing . |
| 17 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |
| 18 | It is clear that , on the most fundamental level , the ability to substitute a thought conveyed in linguistic terms for an action or a thing is an absolutely basic ingredient of the ego 's functioning : it is the key to the ego 's ability to distance itself from the immediate demands of the id and its drives and to evolve higher , more abstract thought-processes than those available to an animal , no matter how intelligent , which lacks the power of speech . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yeah erm again you need n't worry too much about the er erm about the ramifications of this Kenning died in twenty seven and Britain to some extent disentangled herself from the Greek revolt but the upshot was that in eighteen thirty Greece became an independent state . |
| 21 | Bishop detached himself from the watching crowd . |
| 22 | The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and , with other material , is forced out after the baby . |
| 23 | He fought with everything he had — his helmet , his raincoat , his truncheon , his kicks , rubble from the ground ; he even used the van to shield himself from the frenzied attack which relentlessly beat him back . |