Example sentences of "himself from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And signing on and signing off … the goalie who 's saved himself from the dole queue |
| 2 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 3 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 4 | He woke as Pete heaved himself from the bunk . |
| 5 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 6 | TWO years to the day after Chernobyl blew up , Valeri Legasov hanged himself from the balustrade in the stairwell of his Moscow house . |
| 7 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Consumed with rage and anxiety , Tobias Beventini , physician , prowled through the warm , pretty villa of the loveliest woman in Nicosia , bumping into maids carrying baskets of linen and other maids bearing pressed robes and doublets , concealing himself from the man who wanted to trim the fluff round his scalp , and using long Latin words to the other man who wanted to polish his spurs and his jewellery . |
| 10 | Only after his son 's arrival at his camp did Henry II rouse himself from the passivity of the last month . |
| 11 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 12 | Mark sagged forward on to his desk , straightened up , and dragged himself from the brink of sleep . |
| 13 | Morrissey reluctantly made the odd appearance ( although he would later disassociate himself from the organisation ) . |
| 14 | Clifford Bradley had half hidden himself from the rest of the company behind the table holding the model of the new Laboratory . |
| 15 | He might start by transferring himself from the wheelchair across onto a seat in the bath , and washing himself sitting up . |
| 16 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 17 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 18 | Another former confidant , John Biffen , in effect removed himself from the government after coded criticism of the Prime Minister 's strident , dogmatic style . |
| 19 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 20 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
| 21 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 22 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 23 | Before speaking to her he has pondered the question of committing suicide to absolve himself from the responsibility of avenging his father ; and Ophelia 's behaviour only emphasises the apparent pointlessness of trying to oppose Claudius , who could easily destroy him . |
| 24 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 25 | He saved himself from the sack a dozen times . |
| 26 | Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death . |
| 27 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 28 | By using Yagüe as his intermediary , however , Franco effectively distanced himself from the horror . |
| 29 | As the front door closed he pulled himself from the sofa and watched her drive away . |
| 30 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |