Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 2 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 3 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 4 | I managed to stop myself from repeating that , too . |
| 5 | I managed to restrain myself from snapping back , ‘ Piece of cake ! |
| 6 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 7 | I had to restrain myself from running after her and asking who she was — heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire perhaps ? |
| 8 | I have stopped myself from saying anything as my daughter 's children live round the corner and I have them to stay overnight and take them on a Saturday but they are no bother . |
| 9 | My eyes prickle with tears , and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love . |
| 10 | Nine times out of ten they 're both totally wrong and sometimes I have to stop myself from butting in . |
| 11 | I have to stop myself from skipping . |
| 12 | ‘ I have to cover myself from my superiors , ’ said one , ‘ because they 'll know I 've been on site . ’ |
| 13 | The actual work can be a bit fiddly — sometimes an arrangement just wo n't go right and I have to restrain myself from hurling it across the room . |
| 14 | Horrified , she tried to wrench herself from sleep — then the water struck , roaring round her ears . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 17 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 20 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 21 | A swallow to him was something you did when you ate food or you did to stop yourself from crying . |
| 22 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 23 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 24 | Employing only a cool curiosity , she had defended herself from sentimental pretences . |
| 25 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 26 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 27 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 28 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 29 | She had to restrain herself from dashing for it , almost in the fear that it would close again and that this time , it would be forever . |
| 30 | As his palm cupped their heaviness , almost possessively , squeezing , caressing , make her blood leap , Lisa was suddenly overcome by a longing so intense that she had to restrain herself from falling on her knees and begging him to make love to her right there on the beach . |