Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 2 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 3 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 4 | If the most amusing anecdote you can find is one which is rather negative , tell it and then disassociate yourself from the views it expresses . |
| 5 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 6 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 7 | This in itself , however , will not guarantee success , because it is possible to live in an area and yet isolate oneself from the local inhabitants . |
| 8 | He was associated with Edward Irving and Henry Drummond [ qq.v. ] and participated in the early prophetic conferences at Albury , but later distanced himself from the movement that was to result in the formation of the Catholic Apostolic Church . |
| 9 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |