Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shift myself from the mirror to the window , to see what she does . |
| 2 | But I do not try to re-read the text to make it more acceptable ; I dissociate myself from Shakespeare 's outlook . |
| 3 | I release myself from pain and struggle . |
| 4 | I release myself from my old patterns . |
| 5 | I distance myself from the position and policies of the president . |
| 6 | I distance myself from the position and the policy of the President and advocate his immediate resignation [ and ] the handing over of power to a collective body , the Federation Council . " |
| 7 | It is almost impossible to stand up , and you haul yourself from building to building , from stanchion to stanchion as if on board a ship rounding the Horn in a nor'wester . |
| 8 | This does not mean that we can not be friends with an unbeliever — obviously , we can not reach people for Christ if we insulate ourselves from non-Christian company . |
| 9 | It is when we use our uniqueness to feel ‘ better than ’ that we separate ourselves from others and thereby create misery and suffering . |
| 10 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 11 | In the first , we detach ourselves from our preoccupations , even our plans for his service , quieten our minds and fix our attention on God , lifting our hearts in hope , trust , and love . |
| 12 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |
| 13 | Thus we free ourselves from our chains , and are raised into regions high above sadness and a calm engulfs us and a burden falls from our shoulders . |
| 14 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 15 | When they dissociate themselves from the academic world of their time , they are making the time-honoured mystical point that what Wordsworth would call ‘ the meddling intellect ’ had nothing to do with the vision of God . |
| 16 | Since 1981 German car makers have lowered the share of a car 's value they produce themselves from nearly 40% to less than 35% . |
| 17 | Japanese companies are getting stronger and stronger , as they turn themselves from exporters into true multinationals . |
| 18 | They protect themselves from too much probing and they appear very secretive in nature but can take ice-cold decisions without a second glance if it suits their purpose . |
| 19 | Hilton says they turn away from involvement in the world , and , in words which more immediately evoke the liberation and peace which are the goals of the rigours of contemplative life , he says that they : That is , they rid themselves from involvement with any possessions not strictly needed for physical survival and escape from the demands and goals of social success to a different kind of service . |
| 20 | The mass of working people , as they liberate themselves from the bourgeois yoke , will gravitate irresistibly towards us … provided yesterday 's oppressions do not infringe the long oppressed nation 's highly developed democratic feeling of self-respect and provided they are granted equality in everything . |
| 21 | It 's sometimes easier for them to cope if they distance themselves from it and rebuild their lives as single parents , without telling people what they 've been through . ’ |
| 22 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |