Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereupon , declaring that no less precious food should thereafter pass her lips , the lady had , variously , starved herself to death or flung herself from the window , in which case her blood had forever coloured the ruddy rocks of Roussillon . |
| 2 | Drop nets can also be bought or made yourself from netting available to repair prawn nets . |
| 3 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 4 | Or hiding themselves from me , resorting to a whole range of lies and excuses . |
| 5 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 6 | On the face of it , this is similar to accommodation theory : speakers approximate their interlocutors ' linguistic behaviour , or distance themselves from it , depending on whether or not they wish to identify themselves with that individual . |
| 7 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |
| 8 | There are plenty of other ways than throwing yourself from a walkway . ’ |
| 9 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 10 | The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe . |
| 11 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 12 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 13 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 14 | He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well . |
| 15 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 16 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 17 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 18 | He had heard the commotion and roused himself from his noonday nap to come and see what had caused such an uproar . |
| 19 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |
| 20 | Dear Donna said virtuously that she had to write her report , and disentangled herself from the conversation before she was asked to babysit . |
| 21 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 22 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |
| 23 | Quite unconsciously he had punished his wife instead of his mother and protected himself from bossy women by holding the marital reigns so tightly . |
| 24 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 25 | His fingers became fat maggots and detached themselves from his doughnut hands . |
| 26 | Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder . |
| 27 | I welcome what the Home Secretary said about Le Pen 's visit to Britain , but will he go a little further and dissociate himself from those of his colleagues who are seeking to meet that man ? |
| 28 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 29 | Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain . |
| 30 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |