Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] from this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 2 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 3 | Could you please explain to her what these are/mean and let me know if she wants to change them from this : needs to be finalized by lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 4 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 5 | Something must be done to free her from this grip . |
| 6 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 7 | Are we actually going to learn anything from this recent disastrous period ? |
| 8 | The Elves hid themselves in caves , woods and mountainsides and prayed to their gods that they would not be found , and that a hero would emerge to deliver them from this evil . |
| 9 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 10 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 11 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 12 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 13 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |