Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an arm permanently bruised from protecting herself from beatings . |
| 2 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 3 | As events since the early 1970s have shown , many advanced capitalist states have in fact had much less trouble than anticipated in extricating themselves from the provision of collective consumption . |
| 4 | In speeches delivered by him during a four-day visit to Catalonia in January , he called for unity and solidarity ; yet , at the same time , he himself kept the in-fighting going by distancing himself from Serrano while cultivating Arrese . |
| 5 | Stoicism , like Buddhism , calls for indifference to the material world and a fatalism based on freeing oneself from desires . |
| 6 | Most of them adapted by distancing themselves from their homes , from the attitudes and habits of their parents . |
| 7 | He might start by transferring himself from the wheelchair across onto a seat in the bath , and washing himself sitting up . |