Example sentences of "detach itself [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties .
2 The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away .
3 Masculine development did not detach itself from the nourishing mother .
4 Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track .
5 The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and , with other material , is forced out after the baby .
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