Example sentences of "[verb] himself from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 2 | He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well . |
| 3 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 4 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 5 | He discharged himself from the hospital . |
| 6 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 7 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | GE is headed by former environment minister Brice Lalonde and was set up with Mitterrand 's encouragement , but Lalonde has increasingly distanced himself from the government in recent months , criticizing Socialist policy on the environment . |
| 10 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 11 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 12 | Clifford Bradley had half hidden himself from the rest of the company behind the table holding the model of the new Laboratory . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 15 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |
| 16 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 17 | Only after his son 's arrival at his camp did Henry II rouse himself from the passivity of the last month . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Station Chief detached himself from the group . |
| 20 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 21 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 22 | And signing on and signing off … the goalie who 's saved himself from the dole queue |
| 23 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 24 | Pushing himself from the wall he grabbed Tommy 's jacket and pulled him along the road . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 27 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 28 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 29 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 30 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |