Example sentences of "[vb past] to distance [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 2 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 3 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 4 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 5 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 6 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 7 | Indeed , it led to the so-called Euro-communism of the 1970s , when communist parties with quite substantial support , as in Spain , Portugal and Italy , began to distance themselves from the policies of the Soviet Union and its satellites . |
| 8 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 9 | In the 1980s , the WFTU had over 200 million members in 70 countries ( most of Eastern Europe and communist unions in Western Europe and Japan ) , though the Italian communist trade union had withdrawn and the French began to distance themselves from WFTU in the mid-1970s , ostensibly to improve the climate for domestic solidarity . |
| 10 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 11 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 12 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 13 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 14 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 15 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 16 | Yesterday , Mr Major battled to distance himself from the scandal which has already engulfed four Cabinet colleagues . |
| 17 | At all costs Hauser wished to distance himself from the coming Manescu operation in various ex-Communist European states . |
| 18 | The phrase ‘ Protocols-style ’ carries a critical rhetoric , suggesting that the authors wished to distance themselves from the traditions of the conspiracy theory . |
| 19 | The UK , however , continued to distance itself from its Commonwealth partners on financial and trading and investment sanctions , stressing that it was dissatisfied with the pace at which its partners intended to lift them . |
| 20 | SARFU had to distance themselves from the happenings at Ellis Park ’ , said French . |
| 21 | Indeed , at the Home Office Press Conference held to discuss the catastrophic crime figures for April to June 1990 , John Patten attempted to distance himself from the research by asking if Field was the member of his staff ‘ who wore an earring ’ ( Guardian 27.10.90 ) before stating that the work was exploratory and could not be regarded as definitive . |