Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] themselves from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top performers jealously protected themselves from all types of misrepresentation , so it is hardly surprising that record companies did n't try it on . |
| 2 | Internal prison reformers can not divorce themselves from these issues , however sensitive they might be . |
| 3 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 4 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |
| 5 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 6 | As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power . |
| 7 | As we discuss shortly , Bourdieu 's work shows these processes of emulation to be combined with the extraordinarily subtle means by which social groups also distinguish themselves from each other . |
| 8 | The minting of coins , possibly simultaneously , in East Anglia in the name of a king , Eadwald , indicates that the East Angles also emancipated themselves from Mercian control . |
| 9 | These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel , presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain . |
| 10 | When linguists became involved , with a few notable exceptions , it was mainly to distance themselves from this current of ideas and to introduce the second phase . |
| 11 | I think that some girls ca n't disassociate themselves from all the advertising they see . |
| 12 | Camilla and Charles then distanced themselves from each other as part of a ‘ damage-limitation exercise ’ agreed in a series of Palace-negotiated pacts . |