Example sentences of "[pron] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 32 | He fought with everything he had — his helmet , his raincoat , his truncheon , his kicks , rubble from the ground ; he even used the van to shield himself from the frenzied attack which relentlessly beat him back . |
| 33 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 34 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 37 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 38 | I do not know whether that means that he has changed his policy or is distancing himself from the official line of the Labour party on unemployment issues . |
| 39 | Archipenko , who had been a friend of Delaunay for some time , now also denied being a Cubist ; the Art column of Gil Blas reported on 14 December 1912 : ‘ M. Archipenko has formally announced that he has completely detached himself from the Cubist group whose principles he rejects . ’ |
| 40 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 41 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 42 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 43 | Charles Spencer comes on stage as the nice guy who has dissociated himself from the forced sale of tenants ' cottages , grieved over the disposal of historic treasures and heralded a new degage era of neighbourliness . |
| 44 | Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death . |
| 45 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 46 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
| 47 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |
| 48 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 49 | The driver gracefully unwound himself from the low-slung vehicle and stood up , stretching his back , unaware that he was being watched . |
| 50 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 51 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 52 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 53 | Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates . |
| 54 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 55 | Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis . |
| 56 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 57 | Bishop detached himself from the watching crowd . |
| 58 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 59 | When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts . |
| 60 | ‘ Nobody from the chief executive down begrudges a single penny spent on health , safety and the environment , ’ said HSE group manager John Dobson . |