Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 2 | The Labour Party 's obsession with distancing itself from anything which the right-wing media could pick up and exploit as ‘ extremist ’ is well described by Wainwright in her account of a Labour Party election rally . |
| 3 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 4 | He was an expert at extracting himself from emotional entanglements … the bitter voices were mocking her … |
| 5 | So you know it was up to you to sort of prove yourself from from there . |
| 6 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 7 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act does not totally prohibit the seller from exempting himself from liability for breach of these other terms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We agents , however , must represent anything with the air of a cock-up only as an opportunity to demonstrate the Partei 's brilliance in extricating itself from it . |
| 10 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 11 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 12 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
| 13 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 14 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 15 | Most of the other appointees were not senior members of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , as the government continued its policy of distancing itself from the party . |
| 16 | Shortly before the war , she had committed suicide by throwing herself from the bridge into the path of a train . |
| 17 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 18 | It was the penalty for estranging ourselves from Universe . |
| 19 | I kept my hands clasped tightly to avoid the habitual gesture of hiding myself from sight . |
| 20 | For Iranians it was always a political as well as religious creed , and way of differentiating themselves from the Arabs . |
| 21 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 22 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 23 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 24 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 25 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 26 | The tradition of distancing oneself from knowledge or research begins in school , and the horror of emotional interference or personal feelings is , I submit , a very masculine approach to the study of our world — whether the physical or social world . |
| 27 | When , in the past , men were confronted with the problem of differentiating themselves from animals they tended to do so in terms of human attributes such as self-consciousness , rationality , free-will , or the possession of a soul or a moral sense . |
| 28 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 29 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 30 | Society has an interest in protecting itself from activities which threaten to undermine the harmony within it . |