Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] from [pron] " 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 | It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 4 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By absenting himself from her court , by this final and suicidal invisibility , he has denied her her heart 's desire . |
| 8 | Most of them adapted by distancing themselves from their homes , from the attitudes and habits of their parents . |