Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 2 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 3 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 4 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 5 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 6 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 7 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 8 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 9 | When the human voyager has freed himself from his fears and accomplished all his physiological needs , it is as if he has climbed out of a deep pit and reached the top of a high hill from where he sees a vast land stretching in every direction . |
| 10 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 11 | Yet , in the eyes of most Arabs , Saudi Arabia has disqualified itself from leadership of the fragmented Arab world precisely because of its alliance with the United States . |
| 12 | Saddam Hussein says that he needs to protect himself from Iran . |
| 13 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 14 | Charles Spencer comes on stage as the nice guy who has dissociated himself from the forced sale of tenants ' cottages , grieved over the disposal of historic treasures and heralded a new degage era of neighbourliness . |
| 15 | The form also tends to distance itself from passion , although there is passion aplenty in the events described . |
| 16 | 12 May : The Mail prints a letter from its owner , Lord Rothermere , saying that he wishes to distance himself from the newspaper 's criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury the previous day . |
| 17 | By section 6 , the position is the same if he tries to exempt himself from section 13–15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 18 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 19 | The point to remember , however , is that these mechanisms occur unconsciously , they 're things the ego does to defend itself from anxiety and from and the result of which is to force things into the unconscious . |
| 20 | seeks to liberate itself from the Greek domination of the Same and the One … as if from oppression itself — an oppression certainly comparable to none other in the world , an ontological or transcendental oppression , but also the origin or alibi of all oppression in the world . |
| 21 | In the history of the sciences in France , as in German critical theory , it is a matter at bottom of examining a reason , the autonomy of whose structures carries with it a history of dogmatism and despotism — a reason , consequently , which can only have an effect of emancipation on condition that it manages to liberate itself from itself . |
| 22 | Capital growth , above all , is what the industry sells to distinguish itself from boring old building societies . |
| 23 | We 're speaking for working people in this country and we are a reliable indicator of the feelings , the dreams , the hopes of working people right across the country and any party that attempts to divorce itself from an organization such as ours , that attempts to speak for working people will lose its way . |
| 24 | She caught hold of one of the timber supports to stop herself from shooting out into the main tunnel . |