Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 2 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 3 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 4 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 5 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 6 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 7 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 8 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 9 | Unless they dared to absent themselves from the slow unfolding of the plan — would not their keen minds continue to be needed ? |
| 10 | Mary Daly , in Pure Lust ( 1984 ) , a polemical book subtitled ‘ Elemental Feminist Philosophy ’ which explicitly and insistently refuses to fit the usual categories of what philosophy is supposed to consist of , argues that the passions and their relation to reason must be renamed , and thus reunderstood by women if they wish to free themselves from the constrictions inherent in the male naming of them . |
| 11 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 12 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 13 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 14 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 15 | 12 May : The Mail prints a letter from its owner , Lord Rothermere , saying that he wishes to distance himself from the newspaper 's criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury the previous day . |
| 16 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 17 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |