Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 2 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 3 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 4 | Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites . |
| 5 | On Aug. 14 the Council of State disassociated itself from the government , claiming that it was " corrupt and incompetent " and had failed to deal with " terrorists " . |
| 6 | An Early Day Motion has now been tabled in the House of Commons attacking the report and calling the Department of Health to distance itself from the recommendations . |
| 7 | It is often a matter of history repeating itself from generation to generation and , under this Government , even within a single generation . |
| 8 | Another former confidant , John Biffen , in effect removed himself from the government after coded criticism of the Prime Minister 's strident , dogmatic style . |
| 9 | The Labour Party , in order to distance itself from its estranged and inconsistent creator , shrouded his name and reputation with invective . |
| 10 | Many analysts believed that Cedras and his colleagues had only taken charge in order to prevent themselves from being swept away by events , and some senior commanders had reportedly refused to join Cedras in the ruling junta . |
| 11 | The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence . |
| 12 | BAe was keen to diversify , in order to protect itself from the cyclical swings of both civil and military aerospace manufacturing . |
| 13 | Movement can also be limited by the body in order to protect itself from further harm , e.g. the pain from a twisted ankle prevents mobility , thus allowing the inflamed tissues to rest and heal . |
| 14 | In order to protect itself from the conflicting , volatile and diffuse demands of political groups , it retreated into greater bureaucratism . |
| 15 | As I seem to have missed any further pronouncements from this source on this topic , I would be very interested to hear if anyone can shed any light on any recent attempts that the Catholic Church may have made in order to extricate themselves from a presumably somewhat embarrassing position . |
| 16 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 17 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 18 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 19 | Almost all the advocates of the confessional approach today would in fact distance themselves from the kind of RE that this has often produced in the past . |
| 20 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 21 | Speculation has been intensified that Mr Nelson Mandela , African National Congress president , will soon yield to pressure to distance himself from his wife by announcing that their de facto separation is official . |
| 22 | All that time wasted meditating on death to keep yourself from coming too soon . |
| 23 | Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe |
| 24 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |