Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 2 | He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well . |
| 3 | He discharged himself from the hospital . |
| 4 | Alone in the dining room , having eaten the half-grapefruit set in her place by Curtis , she helped herself from the sideboard to fish pie cooked by Mrs Files . |
| 5 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 6 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 7 | All the children blessed themselves from the fount and went straight up to the altar . |
| 8 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 9 | The driver gracefully unwound himself from the low-slung vehicle and stood up , stretching his back , unaware that he was being watched . |
| 10 | One arm disentangled itself from the covers , her fingers curling indolently into the fine cotton of the quilt . |
| 11 | Dear Donna said virtuously that she had to write her report , and disentangled herself from the conversation before she was asked to babysit . |
| 12 | Yeah erm again you need n't worry too much about the er erm about the ramifications of this Kenning died in twenty seven and Britain to some extent disentangled herself from the Greek revolt but the upshot was that in eighteen thirty Greece became an independent state . |
| 13 | Rachaela lifted herself from the chair . |
| 14 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 15 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 16 | In accepting that the world occupied by a majority of adult women would be different from that of men , feminists distinguished themselves from the mainstream of opinion only by their refusal to accept that women 's role was thereby rendered inferior . |
| 17 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 18 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 19 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 20 | As she drew closer , a burly , red-faced police sergeant detached himself from the crowd and moved towards her , notebook in hand . |
| 21 | Irish Tom detached himself from the group of workmen and swaggered , grinning , along the corridor . |
| 22 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 23 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 24 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 25 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 26 | Lucenzo detached himself from the crowd and ran up the stairs two at a time , seeing that she 'd frozen . |
| 27 | Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis . |
| 28 | Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death . |
| 29 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 30 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |