Example sentences of "of [v-ing] himself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties . |
| 2 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 3 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 4 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 5 | Well that brings us back to the idea that he may be a man of style , rather than substance , in terms of differentiating himself from Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |