Example sentences of "[verb] itself from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | America had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last . |
| 4 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 5 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 6 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 7 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The line went dead and , unfolding itself from the mat , the dog gave a single , peremptory bark that might have been the result of an interrupted dream . |
| 10 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 11 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 12 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 13 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 14 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 15 | The rumour generated a wave of protest , which caused the HDUR to dissociate itself from the initiative . |
| 16 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 17 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 18 | J. H. Plumb has raised the interesting question ‘ Why did history develop in Europe , whereas in China it never extracted itself from the iron grip of the past in the service of the present ? ’ |
| 19 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 20 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 21 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 22 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 23 | In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival . |
| 24 | The Serbian Orthodox Church on May 27 dissociated itself from the regime , criticizing the new constitution and forthcoming elections . |
| 25 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 28 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 29 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 30 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |