Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 2 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |
| 3 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 4 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 5 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 6 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 7 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 8 | ‘ Shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 9 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Wants attention , he does , ’ murmured Tom , drawing himself away from the window . |
| 11 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 12 | Pushing himself away from the walls of the KGB building , Kirov walked in the direction of the Post Office . |
| 13 | At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food . |
| 14 | By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ‘ affirmative ’ culture . |
| 15 | Is it possible , ’ wondered the earl , appealing deferentially to Prior Robert 's more profound instruction in things holy , ‘ that for some beneficent purpose of her own she may have transferred herself miraculously from the place where she was laid ? |
| 16 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 17 | Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ . |
| 18 | I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world . |
| 19 | That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised . |
| 20 | Pulling himself up from the floor he stood before the dying fire , his short fat legs and large stomach making Michael feel sick inside . |
| 21 | Pulling himself away from the older man , he ran after Maisie , who was now somewhere out in the road . |
| 22 | Maxie withdrew himself reluctantly from the excitement of the football game he was watching on television . |
| 23 | By his own accounts , he could hardly keep himself away from the battle lines in Central America . |
| 24 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 25 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 26 | This means that Mr Skinner , who voted in more Commons divisions than any other MP last session , will have to absent himself occasionally from the chamber . |
| 27 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 28 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 29 | Can this group remain within a united working class or will it pursue selfish interests , separating itself further from the remainder of the working class ? |
| 30 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |