Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well that brings us back to the idea that he may be a man of style , rather than substance , in terms of differentiating himself from Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | I kept my hands clasped tightly to avoid the habitual gesture of hiding myself from sight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | She had an arm permanently bruised from protecting herself from beatings . |
| 8 | Society has an interest in protecting itself from activities which threaten to undermine the harmony within it . |
| 9 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 10 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act does not totally prohibit the seller from exempting himself from liability for breach of these other terms . |
| 11 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stoicism , like Buddhism , calls for indifference to the material world and a fatalism based on freeing oneself from desires . |
| 14 | The new Soviet leadership under Gorbachev has evidently been more intent on extricating itself from Afghanistan through political accommodation . |
| 15 | It was the penalty for estranging ourselves from Universe . |
| 16 | Prince Albert , who did much to promote a concern for working-class housing , not least by dying himself from typhoid , gave his name to a model building for four families which , although again intended for artisans , had been rejected as too ambitious by the organizers of the Great Exhibition ( Fig. 37 ) . |
| 17 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 18 | In speeches delivered by him during a four-day visit to Catalonia in January , he called for unity and solidarity ; yet , at the same time , he himself kept the in-fighting going by distancing himself from Serrano while cultivating Arrese . |
| 19 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |