Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 2 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 3 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 4 | I raised myself from the bunk slowly . |
| 5 | I freed myself from the antiquated strait jacket of his verbose speech patterns . |
| 6 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 7 | Alone in the dining room , having eaten the half-grapefruit set in her place by Curtis , she helped herself from the sideboard to fish pie cooked by Mrs Files . |
| 8 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 9 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 10 | And when he had undone her gown , and had difficulty in lifting it over her head , she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off . |
| 11 | Neutral , euphemistic , alliterative , you distanced yourself from the idea of neighbours killing each other . |
| 12 | She removed herself from the town for the birth . |
| 13 | She dragged herself from the smoke and choke and bitch and groan of the staffroom every lunchtime to sit in the rose garden in the park . |
| 14 | She dragged herself from the sofa and listlessly prepared herself some lunch , making do with bread and Camembert cheese and some of the pâté which had been left over from the night before . |
| 15 | As they served themselves from the many little dishes , Maura surveyed her companion . |
| 16 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
| 17 | Though almost certainly untrue , the tale succinctly illustrates the prevailing princely ambivalence : they distanced themselves from the servants on whom they relied . |
| 18 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 19 | He discharged himself from the hospital . |
| 20 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 21 | From then on he dissociated himself from the Church of England , and he and Starky preached in barns near Charlynch , drawing huge crowds . |
| 22 | He hung himself from the bellrope . |
| 23 | As the front door closed he pulled himself from the sofa and watched her drive away . |
| 24 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 25 | Little by little he freed himself from the control of the political groups , at the same time successfully exposing their divisions and their increasing isolation . |
| 26 | He saved himself from the sack a dozen times . |
| 27 | Pleading illness , he excused himself from the Governors , meeting that day and took an earlier train home . |
| 28 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 29 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 30 | He forced himself from the parachute , offered thanks to God for his deliverance , and hobbled off to find someone . |