Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It has completely dissociated itself from the ancient Macedonians ’ . |
| 5 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates . |
| 7 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 8 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 9 | In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations . |
| 10 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Americans had different views , but they had deliberately distanced themselves from the area . |
| 13 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 14 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |
| 15 | Clifford Bradley had half hidden himself from the rest of the company behind the table holding the model of the new Laboratory . |
| 16 | Despite calls to reinstate Shevardnadze as Foreign Minister , Boris Pankin , ambassador to Czechoslovakia , was appointed to the post on Aug. 28 ; Pankin had publicly dissociated himself from the " barbarous acts " of the coup on Aug. 21 . |