Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 2 | And , granted that much , " We " then further discriminate ourselves from other men by elaborations of these same three distinctions : |
| 3 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 4 | For her latest exhibition , Oulton has gone even further to distance herself from Old Master traditions and concepts of Englishness . |
| 5 | As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power . |
| 6 | The minting of coins , possibly simultaneously , in East Anglia in the name of a king , Eadwald , indicates that the East Angles also emancipated themselves from Mercian control . |
| 7 | These are patients cut off from their capacity to feel , presumably to protect themselves from emotional pain . |
| 8 | Northamptonshire mumming , Shrovetide football , and " Plough Mondays " are examples of practices which were no longer encouraged and to an extent positively discouraged by a gentry which increasingly distanced itself from rude diversions and vulgar games . |