Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 2 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 3 | He shuts himself off from his two young daughters and composes laments to his dead wife . |
| 4 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 5 | He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement . |
| 6 | In the second section , he cuts himself off from his humble family and is influenced greatly by class distinctions . |
| 7 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 8 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 9 | It reproduces itself identically from generation to generation ; the unconscious imitation of parents by their children is enough to ensure the perpetuation of anthropological systems . |
| 10 | Unless a mother divorces herself completely from the essential tasks of child care , handing over her baby to others , her role will keep her in touch with the most basic elements of life ! |
| 11 | Uplift yourself from your lower self , even as an elephant draws himself up from a muddy swamp . |
| 12 | Andy is wheezing , struggling for breath ; he pulls himself out from underneath the man ; there is blood round his backside . |
| 13 | A council statement endorsed by Mr Pignatelli , Mr McGrath and Neil McIntosh , Strathclyde 's chief executive , said : ‘ The council dissociates itself totally from any view which links genetic theory and race in such a way . |
| 14 | No oligarchy ever reforms itself willingly from within , and almost the only Areopagite with the necessary combination of prestige and radical views to have brought about such a reform is Themistokles . |