Example sentences of "in [v-ing] themselves from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 2 | In freeing themselves from this burden they may need to make their escape into another language or culture , even by establishing geographical distance over thousands of miles of ocean . |
| 3 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 4 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 5 | As events since the early 1970s have shown , many advanced capitalist states have in fact had much less trouble than anticipated in extricating themselves from the provision of collective consumption . |