Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 2 | After a while Harbury and Linda detached themselves from a group and carried their drinks over to join Rain . |
| 3 | French President François Mitterrand dissociated himself from the statement because of a passage which , praising Soviet moves to democracy and " economic liberty " , said that market economies should be created in the Soviet republics . |
| 4 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 5 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 6 | Rachaela lifted herself from the chair . |
| 7 | Lucenzo detached himself from the crowd and ran up the stairs two at a time , seeing that she 'd frozen . |
| 8 | As she stumbled back into the corridor Alexander disengaged himself from the embrace of the dark-haired woman . |
| 9 | He woke as Pete heaved himself from the bunk . |
| 10 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 11 | She gave Victoria a banana whenever she saw her and would tell Melanie to help herself from the baskets of nuts . |
| 12 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 13 | Irish Tom detached himself from the group of workmen and swaggered , grinning , along the corridor . |
| 14 | Adele Duncan raised herself from the pillows . |
| 15 | In the fifth century there were only two kings of Cyrene before the monarchy fell some time before c.450 , Battos IV ‘ The Fair ’ and Arkesilas IV ; in about the middle of the century , Cyrene freed itself from the never very oppressive control of Persia , perhaps following the lead of the Egyptian revolt . |
| 16 | Mr. Brakspear dissociated himself from the report saying ‘ the error in truth having arisen from the fact that they ( he and Mr. Fryer ) were the only two who went round the links with reporters ’ . |
| 17 | TWO years to the day after Chernobyl blew up , Valeri Legasov hanged himself from the balustrade in the stairwell of his Moscow house . |
| 18 | Detective Sergeant Cedric Jones said Mr Banks hanged himself from a hifi speaker bracket on his bedroom wall . |
| 19 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 20 | Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis . |
| 21 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 22 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 23 | Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks . |
| 24 | When he realized that he was unlikely to receive satisfaction on either score , de Gaulle distanced himself from the negotiations by flying to Brazzaville in Central Africa . |
| 25 | Was Morrissey distancing himself from the proceedings ? |
| 26 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 27 | Kate removed herself from the too close proximity . |
| 28 | Founded in 1982 , Compaq ran itself from the start as ‘ a major company in its formative stage ’ , not just ‘ a small company with big plans ’ . |
| 29 | Consecrated in Winchester by the legate Henry of Blois [ q.v. ] on 20 June , Bishop William excused himself from the consecration of Fitzherbert in late September because of difficulties in his bishopric , where Cumin was maintaining his position by force and guile . |
| 30 | George protects himself from the stink of UB40 's ‘ witty ’ bile |