Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 2 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 3 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 4 | He left the cardboard box on top of his wardrobe , where it remained until 1973 , when he cleared away every trace of himself from 29 Champney Road . |
| 5 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 6 | Ruth asked him with trepidation , half anticipating a sudden dismissal of herself from his home . |
| 7 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 8 | Why has the LDDC changed the presentation of itself from that of a ‘ yuppie ’ development agency to an inner city concern ‘ working for the community ’ ? |
| 9 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 10 | At the sight of herself in the mirror , an image of herself from so long ago , all the shock came back , taking her by surprise . |