Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answering machine winks cheerfully , but it is only Mrs Body excusing herself from work tomorrow because of the funeral . |
| 2 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 3 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 4 | If a poet writes about ‘ Stella ’ , what she does , what her attributes are , by the use of the third-person form he has acknowledged a certain distance separating himself from his beloved . |
| 5 | If , for example , an organisation purports to keep a list of undischarged bankrupts , but makes no effort to seek information on persons discharging themselves from bankruptcy , it will be contravening this principle . |
| 6 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 7 | Have difficulty distancing yourself from situations . |
| 8 | Was Morrissey distancing himself from the proceedings ? |
| 9 | We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us . |
| 10 | Jolted abruptly out of her paralysis by this drastic reduction of their adversaries , Isabel suddenly became aware of the curses of the fellow untangling himself from fitzAlan 's cloak . |
| 11 | They saw a potential danger in the ILP releasing itself from responsibility for the failings of the late Labour Government . |
| 12 | As Laumann and House suggest , they can usually be depended on to adopt design-languages distinguishing themselves from those who have not yet arrived . |
| 13 | It is often a matter of history repeating itself from generation to generation and , under this Government , even within a single generation . |
| 14 | Many Danzigers felt that the Nazis could not help them , and at the same time that only the Nazis could help them ; they urged the Party on while at the same time distancing themselves from it . |
| 15 | Unlike sharks , they do n't waste energy preventing themselves from sinking . |