Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 8 | Entrainment by laminar flows — the fact that a jet , for example , draws fluid into itself from the sides — has been discussed in Sections 11.6 and 11.7 . |
| 9 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 10 | The British raiders had the race to themselves from the final turn as Jodami overhauled his chief rival in an exciting duel that was only decided on the line . |
| 11 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
| 12 | I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals . |
| 13 | They probably ripped it off themselves from a Hollywood still . |
| 14 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 15 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 16 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |