Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 2 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 3 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 4 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 5 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 6 | Just now ( but this can not last she thought , dissociating herself from the moment while she talked about boots ) just now she had reached security ; she hovered like a hawk suspended ; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly , not noisily , solemnly rather , for it arose , she thought , looking at them all eating there , from husband and children and friends … |
| 7 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 8 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 9 | Thoroughly angered , a thousand seamen , armed , we are told , with " cannon , guns , muskets , musquetoons , blunderbusses , pistols , swords , cutlasses , clubs , sticks , stones , bricks and other offensive weapons " surrounded the Exchange , some of them also regaling themselves from the contents of the stores of nearby wine merchants which had been broken into . |
| 10 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 11 | To sidestep any arguments about who should inherit the party 's vast fortunes if a split occurs , the delegates declared themselves to be the legal heirs of the HSWP , whilst dissociating themselves from the old party 's ‘ crimes , false and mistaken principles and methods ’ . |
| 12 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that the air and naval high commands had withdrawn their support for the President , dissociating themselves from the incidents of Aug. 10 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Former French Open champion Walton goes into the third round of the £618,000 championship in second place , two strokes behind Swede Mats Lanner , and 36 good holes away from saving himself from the trip that no player wants to make . |
| 15 | Pushing himself from the wall he grabbed Tommy 's jacket and pulled him along the road . |
| 16 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 17 | The line went dead and , unfolding itself from the mat , the dog gave a single , peremptory bark that might have been the result of an interrupted dream . |
| 18 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 19 | Excusing herself from the table , she found Guy 's London number in the telephone book and dialled it in the privacy of the study . |
| 20 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 21 | It follows from these conjectures that members of literate societies have the possibility of developing logical functions , of specialising in the ‘ truth functions ’ of language , and of extracting themselves from the embeddedness of everyday social life . |
| 22 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 23 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 24 | Her solution was to become so thin that she was extremely plain and ‘ ill ’ looking , and that way she felt she avoided the sense of being in competition with her mother , removing herself from the battle zone . |
| 25 | ‘ You will have demonstrated that you are his servant , for by removing yourself from the court at such a crucial hour you will have proved to him that he was right to trust you . ’ |
| 26 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |
| 27 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 28 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 29 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 30 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |