Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 5 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 6 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 7 | They do not have to protect themselves from the monster . |
| 8 | Had they followed the example of Aled Williams , who scored a scintillating try around the Neath cover , the game might have released itself from the siege strangehold . |
| 9 | Edward , who appeared to have detached himself from the proceedings , stared out of the window . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 12 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 19 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 20 | Five exporting countries ( Botswana , Malawi , South Africa , Zambia and Zimbabwe ) had exempted themselves from the ban . |
| 21 | Of the seven countries which had exempted themselves from the ban , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi , Botswana and South Africa were ivory producers and exporters , while China and Hong Kong were the only countries to continue importing ivory . |
| 22 | The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling . |
| 23 | SARFU had to distance themselves from the happenings at Ellis Park ’ , said French . |
| 24 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 25 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 26 | The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction . |
| 27 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 28 | The United Stales of America — who had excluded themselves from the League of Nations — did nothing about the matter . |
| 29 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 30 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |