Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 2 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 3 | He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well . |
| 4 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 5 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 6 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 7 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 8 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 9 | He discharged himself from the hospital . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 12 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 13 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 14 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 15 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 17 | Dominique uncoils herself from the driving seat and extracts herself elegantly . |
| 18 | Alone in the dining room , having eaten the half-grapefruit set in her place by Curtis , she helped herself from the sideboard to fish pie cooked by Mrs Files . |
| 19 | Just now ( but this can not last she thought , dissociating herself from the moment while she talked about boots ) just now she had reached security ; she hovered like a hawk suspended ; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly , not noisily , solemnly rather , for it arose , she thought , looking at them all eating there , from husband and children and friends … |
| 20 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 21 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 22 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 23 | I shift myself from the mirror to the window , to see what she does . |
| 24 | Scientists face a constant struggle to segregate themselves from the inducements offered by governments , pressure groups and publishers , all of which may provide alternative sources of funding and prestige to those of their colleagues . |
| 25 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 26 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 27 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 28 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 29 | Thoroughly angered , a thousand seamen , armed , we are told , with " cannon , guns , muskets , musquetoons , blunderbusses , pistols , swords , cutlasses , clubs , sticks , stones , bricks and other offensive weapons " surrounded the Exchange , some of them also regaling themselves from the contents of the stores of nearby wine merchants which had been broken into . |
| 30 | One way will ensnare you and entangle your life to such an extent that you will find it difficult to extract yourself from the situation in which you suddenly find yourself . |