Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 2 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 3 | When Donnington got home in that ridiculous Home Guard uniform of his and her daughter had torn herself away from those men , then all hell would break loose . |
| 4 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 5 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ‘ affirmative ’ culture . |
| 6 | Is it possible , ’ wondered the earl , appealing deferentially to Prior Robert 's more profound instruction in things holy , ‘ that for some beneficent purpose of her own she may have transferred herself miraculously from the place where she was laid ? |
| 7 | His intensity was contrived ; already he had closed himself away from her . |
| 8 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
| 9 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 10 | This , I felt , shrinking with embarrassment , was taking the idea that you are what you eat a sight too literally , and ever since I have distanced myself slightly from that early guide to greens . |
| 11 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |