Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 2 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 6 | Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record : |
| 7 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |
| 8 | I watched Schanberg in Phnom Penh struggling almost schizophrenically to divorce himself from the celebrity that he had become over the years and re-enter the personality he had had before . |
| 9 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |