Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [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 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 6 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Unless they dared to absent themselves from the slow unfolding of the plan — would not their keen minds continue to be needed ? |
| 9 | They had detached themselves from the torrent of peoples that in prehistory had poured out of China onto the countless islands of the Pacific and , settling the eastern coastal strip of the Indochina peninsula , they had named their country Nam Viet — Land of the Southern Viet People . |
| 10 | The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction . |
| 11 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 12 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 15 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 16 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 17 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 18 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 19 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 20 | 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 . |