Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] from [noun sg] " 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 | I kept my hands clasped tightly to avoid the habitual gesture of hiding myself from sight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act does not totally prohibit the seller from exempting himself from liability for breach of these other terms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was the penalty for estranging ourselves from Universe . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |