Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 61 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 62 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 63 | The X 's silently detach themselves from the numbers on either side and become multiplication signs . |
| 64 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 65 | If the most amusing anecdote you can find is one which is rather negative , tell it and then disassociate yourself from the views it expresses . |
| 66 | This in itself , however , will not guarantee success , because it is possible to live in an area and yet isolate oneself from the local inhabitants . |
| 67 | 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 . ’ |
| 68 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 69 | ‘ It has completely dissociated itself from the ancient Macedonians ’ . |
| 70 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 71 | Clifford Bradley had half hidden himself from the rest of the company behind the table holding the model of the new Laboratory . |
| 72 | 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 ? ’ |
| 73 | His own research on female undergraduate students of physics provides further support for this conclusion ; many of them explicitly dissociated themselves from the male physics students and their ambitions . |
| 74 | 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 . |
| 75 | Despite calls to reinstate Shevardnadze as Foreign Minister , Boris Pankin , ambassador to Czechoslovakia , was appointed to the post on Aug. 28 ; Pankin had publicly dissociated himself from the " barbarous acts " of the coup on Aug. 21 . |
| 76 | Only the nationalist Irish explicitly exempted themselves from the interplay of national identity and shared sentiments through games . |
| 77 | She was definitely distancing herself from the older woman . |