Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 5 | He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well . |
| 6 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 7 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 8 | He had heard the commotion and roused himself from his noonday nap to come and see what had caused such an uproar . |
| 9 | Dear Donna said virtuously that she had to write her report , and disentangled herself from the conversation before she was asked to babysit . |
| 10 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 11 | Quite unconsciously he had punished his wife instead of his mother and protected himself from bossy women by holding the marital reigns so tightly . |
| 12 | His fingers became fat maggots and detached themselves from his doughnut hands . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On March 13 the Greek government denied that there had been any interference in Albania 's internal affairs , and dissociated itself from a recent declaration by the Metropolitan of Konitsa in which the archbishop had urged Greek Albanians to return to Albania in order to vote in the elections . |
| 16 | He escaped with a broken leg and pulled himself from the wreckage before Crowfield emergency services arrived from the club . |
| 17 | Although they paid a fee for the transmission rights , they saw the star-studded line-up as an opportunity to boost viewing figures and distanced themselves from any contentious affiliations by renaming the concert Freedom Festival . |
| 18 | Michel Foucault ( 1926–1994 ) , who studied under Althusser , took the step his teacher never did and distanced himself from Marxism while remaining politically radical . |
| 19 | Mr Thomas Rideout , his successor as Conservative premier , called a snap election for April 20th and distanced himself from the Peckford follies . |
| 20 | She twisted her face away and kept herself from crying out . |
| 21 | He had found out what awaited him , and removed himself from the scene long enough , he had hoped , to escape the judgement . |
| 22 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 23 | With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree . |
| 24 | Mark sagged forward on to his desk , straightened up , and dragged himself from the brink of sleep . |
| 25 | When Isaiah had his vision of God in the Temple , he cried aloud in anguish that we lost : even the angels could not bear the sight of the divine majesty but shielded themselves from it with their wings , and he had gazed upon the Lord of Hosts with his own impure eyes . |
| 26 | ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. , |