Example sentences of "[pron] from [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
2 | As soon as we removed ourselves from eyries at Television Centre and Broadcasting House , people began saying to us that the key subject we had to look at was one of portrayal and representation on air . |
3 | Trollope does not suffer much himself from prickings of conscience ( though whether his diamonds are real or paste is another matter ) . |
4 | Mr Endara was moved to distance himself from proposals in Washington to support anti-Noriega parties with CIA funds , describing the scheme as ‘ insulting ’ . |
5 | Moreover , the employer can only protect himself from activities by his employee which might reasonably affect the customer connection which has been built up . |
6 | At his trial at the end of January 1990 , Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timişoara and the incineration of the forty victims there , but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity . |
7 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
8 | After all , closeted anonymously in the Iranian Embassy on avenue d'léna , it was easy to distance himself from events beyond its railings . |
9 | Among them were three Velvet Roses ; single , double and Royal , all , Miller said , raised by himself from seeds of the pale Provence Rose . |
10 | As you come back from Brouage towards St Jean-d'Angely — on the D18 via the canalside village of Pont-l'Abbe-d'Arnoult , with a lovely Romanesque church faade — a sign at the junction of the D122 points you to the chateau whose improbably perfect lake and gardens stare at you from posters throughout the region : La Roche Courbon . |
11 | I recognize you from pictures in the papers and news magazines . |
12 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
13 | Buckingham Palace distanced itself from claims of a constitutional row over Dr Runcie 's remarks about Papal primacy and the Anglican Church . |
14 | The ILP was so worried by this possibility that it eventually disassociated itself from calls for dockers to boycott coal and oil shipments to Italy for fear that ‘ working-class sanctions ’ could not be distinguished publicly from League sanctions and would help to create a psychology for war against Italy . ’ |
15 | The DRC , still closely associated with the National Party , nevertheless dissociated itself from parts of the final declaration of the conference , which called for " unequivocal rejection " of apartheid , and for a " democratic elective process based on one person , one vote " . |
16 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
17 | Forget Kylie — here come the crisp bags Yorkshire students are making music for the ears of world famous composers with everything from sneezes to zips . |
18 | By stretching brands across a wide range of products , some groups like Pierre Cardin , whose name appears on everything from fragrances to frying pans , have damaged their image . |
19 | ‘ Everything from payrolls to personal security , ’ Maxham said . |
20 | Public meetings were organized , MPs lobbied ( including the Bridgwater incumbent , Tom King , himself a former Energy Minister ) , and a mass of information produced to emphasize both the nuclear threat and the local disruption this development would bring to everything from roads to wildlife . |
21 | ‘ Have you anything to declare ? ’ waving a clipboard with everything from narcotics to firearms printed on it . |
22 | On sale will be everything from MODELS of luxury cruisers … right up to the real thing . |
23 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
24 | Everything from newspapers to television movies the lot . |
25 | I could work with everything from marmosets to elephants . |
26 | There are selection interviews , exit interviews , disciplinary interviews , as well as interviews to discover people 's opinions on everything from products to politics . |
27 | Procreation is the key word for April with everything from sticklebacks to water voles producing young during the month . |
28 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
29 | And although such particulars are understandably meaningless to people digging out from billions of flakes , they are becoming crucial to scientists who are trying to predict everything from avalanches to metal failures . |
30 | Food is fresh , and everything from soups to sweets is home-made . |