Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 2 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 3 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 4 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 7 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 8 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 9 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 10 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 11 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 12 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 13 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 14 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 15 | Indeed , most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file . |
| 16 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 17 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 18 | The hyperpluralist perspective may have sought to distance itself from the pluralist perspective on British politics , but there is much in common between the two orientations . |
| 19 | The National Party government sought to distance itself from the day 's events . |
| 20 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 21 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If Rainbow were left to her own devices , she would undoubtedly now choose to remove herself from the taxi altogether , and pace back and forth in the lay-by , enjoying the comparative peace of the rain and the fumes and the roar of the juggernauts until she could get the show back on the road once more . |
| 24 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 25 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
| 26 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 27 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 28 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 29 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 30 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |