Example sentences of "himself from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 2 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 3 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 4 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 5 | DALIAN ATKINSON has turned himself from a confessed ‘ fat , lazy , depressive ’ into one of the country 's most lethal marksmen . |
| 6 | Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk . |
| 7 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 8 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 9 | And then , restraining himself from a farewell blast on the Dixie horn , he 'd set out for Liston Hall . |
| 10 | Neil responded by lifting the cane high , ready to defend himself from a man who he saw was bigger , and probably stronger , than himself . |
| 11 | Oswald sat up , shaking his head as if freeing himself from a trance . |
| 12 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 13 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 14 | He hanged himself from a piece of sheet attached to a ventilation grille . |
| 15 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 16 | In May 1275 Edward I wrote to Alphonso of Castile , excusing himself from an alliance with Castile against France because he was bound by his homage and fealty to Philip III . |
| 17 | Jotan detached himself from an alcove beside the main door . |
| 18 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 19 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Another former confidant , John Biffen , in effect removed himself from the government after coded criticism of the Prime Minister 's strident , dogmatic style . |
| 23 | In his other hand a grenade with the pin removed so he could n't put it down to free himself from the handcuffs , and so from the chair , and so from the room . |
| 24 | As she drew closer , a burly , red-faced police sergeant detached himself from the crowd and moved towards her , notebook in hand . |
| 25 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 26 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 27 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 28 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 29 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 30 | Irish Tom detached himself from the group of workmen and swaggered , grinning , along the corridor . |