Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . |
| 2 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 3 | Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ . |
| 4 | I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world . |
| 5 | I do n't like to offend , alienate myself completely from everyone . |
| 6 | Many people cut themselves off from great sources of nourishment and direction because they imagine that writing can not be taught , or if it can , that you ca n't learn about it in a group . |
| 7 | That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised . |
| 8 | ( Catatonics typically do not speak or appear to listen or take necessary initiatives ; they cut themselves off from human contact . ) |
| 9 | Or you might repeat the word ‘ re-lax ’ several times , then slowly count yourself down from 10 to 1 . |
| 10 | Throw that away ‘ abstract yourself from it and you thereby abstract yourself both from the plan and from the development of the spontaneous into cognised laws , and from the development of political economy into a science … |
| 11 | Thus we set ourselves apart from other beasts , carnivorous or not . |
| 12 | The immediacy of this world of conflict demands that regardless of his proximity to the metaphorical dirt he is controlling , he needs to erect and maintain social and psychological barriers and separate himself conceptually from the ‘ prig ’ . |
| 13 | And it strengthens woman-centred feminism 's influence within other discourses which set themselves apart from political concerns , like psychology . |
| 14 | For a moment draw yourself back from your desires . |
| 15 | Gazzer watched her lower herself down from the top of the gates and edge out on one of the beams . |
| 16 | We have seen that the position of the sun is used as a compass , by which pigeons direct themselves away from release points . |
| 17 | Through their wholly unacceptable behaviour , keoi mark themselves apart from humans , while reminding them of the possibility of such behaviour . |
| 18 | I push myself off from the wall and walk across . |
| 19 | The further we expand the adult the further we take ourselves away from the fears of our primitive self . |
| 20 | Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room . |
| 21 | Many protect themselves even from patients ' questions , by always being very busy or emotionally unapproachable . |
| 22 | If Aschmann becomes unable to perform — as a result of your deliberately destructive influence — I would at once have to issue a statement making it plain that from now on I disassociate myself entirely from the Hochhauser Season . ’ |
| 23 | What is the good of people who shut themselves away from their fellow-men ? |