Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] themselves from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction . |
| 32 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 33 | The United Stales of America — who had excluded themselves from the League of Nations — did nothing about the matter . |
| 34 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |
| 35 | If they were here , 1 am sure that they would support new clause S. The reason that they are not here is because they feel that they would have to vote for new clause 5 if they were here , so they have absented themselves from the debate . |
| 36 | To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life . |
| 37 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 38 | MARKETING MOVES aside , the fact that Radiohead have barred themselves from the 3,000-sales-and-you're-a-star indie party by signing to EMI means that , as stunning as ‘ Creep ’ sounds , it 'll probably chart at about Number 74 , hang around for a couple of weeks and fall back out again without so much as a whimper . |