Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) . |
| 2 | Of course he belongs to the class which dedicates itself from the beginning , single-mindedly to literature , but yet not in the way we would think of . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 4 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |
| 5 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 6 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 7 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 8 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 9 | For by remaining inside a given topic ( in this case poetry ) without setting it against what it differentiates itself from , the object of one 's attention is likely to evaporate . |
| 10 | He saves himself from inconsistency by criticism , in each case , of the harsh rule of a son and successor ( Thrasydaios at Akragas and Deinomenes at Syracuse ) ; but as with the fall of the tyrannies of old Greece there are deeper causes . |
| 11 | He heaves himself from his swivel-chair , pulls a green bottle from his middle-management mini-fridge , spills most of its contents over me while struggling to insert it between my cracked and contorted lips . |
| 12 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |