Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] himself from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 2 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 3 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 4 | He discharged himself from the hospital . |
| 5 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | From then on he dissociated himself from the Church of England , and he and Starky preached in barns near Charlynch , drawing huge crowds . |
| 8 | He hung himself from the bellrope . |
| 9 | As the front door closed he pulled himself from the sofa and watched her drive away . |
| 10 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 11 | Little by little he freed himself from the control of the political groups , at the same time successfully exposing their divisions and their increasing isolation . |
| 12 | He saved himself from the sack a dozen times . |
| 13 | Pleading illness , he excused himself from the Governors , meeting that day and took an earlier train home . |
| 14 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 15 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 16 | He forced himself from the parachute , offered thanks to God for his deliverance , and hobbled off to find someone . |