Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 2 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 3 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 5 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 7 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 8 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 9 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 10 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |
| 11 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 12 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 13 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 14 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 15 | Instead , the endometrium will detach itself from the wall of the uterus ( a new lining will grow during the next month ) and both egg and uteral lining , together with a little blood , will be discharged from the vagina as the process of menstruation . |
| 16 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 17 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 18 | Masculine development did not detach itself from the nourishing mother . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
| 21 | Moreover , the policing of the picket line was organised and controlled by local police officers according to a ‘ hearts and minds ’ philosophy : the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sensibly recognised that almost every family in Sheffield had connections with the steelworkers and was keen to ensure that the police did not alienate themselves from the wider community . |
| 22 | It is clear that the core of the upper class certainly do differentiate themselves from the broader middle class , even if it suits them to call themselves ‘ middle class ’ when asked . |
| 23 | The two Skaven heads will bite anyone who opens the doors ( WS +20 for this ) ; they can also detach themselves from the doors , flying around the coach-house and attacking anyone they find . |
| 24 | She had n't eaten the spinach , and in doing so created a martyrdom ; now she must restrain herself from the agonizing satisfaction of telling Maman all the truth , thus getting Aunt Tossie into dreadful trouble . |
| 25 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 26 | In other words , whilst appearing to criticize the antisemitism of Streicher and The Protocols , the author does not wholly distance himself from the traditions of antisemitism . |
| 27 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 28 | Initiative members argue an ACE/Intel machine would have helped Intel distinguish itself from the cloners nipping most furiously at its heels . |
| 29 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 30 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |