Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 3 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 4 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 6 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 7 | A close associate of the President , he had nevertheless distanced himself from the ruling party , the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution ( AREMA ) . |
| 8 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 9 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 10 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 11 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 12 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 13 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 14 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 15 | In any case , Germany had already removed itself from the control and sanction of the League of Nations . |
| 16 | Fewer and fewer Labour people can any longer distract themselves from the common assertion that Mr Kinnock is surrounded by men who are more able and winning than he is . |
| 17 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 18 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 19 | The Americans had different views , but they had deliberately distanced themselves from the area . |
| 20 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 21 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 22 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 23 | Gradually the technique develops its own style , moving away from red-figure as red-figure had early freed itself from the black figure tradition ; only white-ground long remains no more than a sideline of red-figure painters . |
| 24 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |
| 25 | Design 's effective denial of a social formative or linguistic-representational function further isolates itself from the academies traditionally orientated towards understanding and valuing these . |
| 26 | He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland . |
| 27 | However , they can still disassociate themselves from the apology . |
| 28 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 29 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 30 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |