Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 3 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 4 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 5 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 6 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 7 | The capitalist economy , while ensuring the continuance of the peasant sector , does not allow it to develop sufficiently to extricate itself from its subordinate role , for this would destroy its value for capitalism . |
| 8 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
| 9 | His book again shows locales being used as a resource in this process , ‘ the lads ’ using distinct rooms and spaces to literally separate themselves from school authorities , from the ‘ earoles ’ and from the much-despised Pakistanis and West Indians . |
| 10 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 11 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 12 | Jo Richardson , though replying on behalf of the NEC , pointedly distanced herself from its stand . |
| 13 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 14 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 15 | Elizabeth Woodville sat up and gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son . |
| 16 | Moreover , the employer can only protect himself from activities by his employee which might reasonably affect the customer connection which has been built up . |
| 17 | Though close throughout their lives , Gwen felt the need to personally distance herself from her brother by moving , early on , to Paris . |
| 18 | The mummy tripped over his legs , and only saved himself from falling by grabbing one of the row of dangling blackjacks above the seats . |
| 19 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 21 | She hated him and she hated what he was capable of doing to her , but her hate was n't enough to stop herself from feeling the forbidden pleasure of his hands on her body . |
| 22 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 23 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 24 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 25 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 26 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 27 | Charles just stopped himself from saying ‘ Reet nice ’ . |
| 28 | He just stopped himself from reacting angrily . |
| 29 | He just stopped himself from adding , ‘ We were n't looking for anything . ’ |
| 30 | Pink riding hats , turquoise waistcoats , stetsons ( Jane just stopped herself from asking where the corks were ) and they wore all these glories even when they were mucking out . |