Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 2 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 3 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 4 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 5 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 6 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 7 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 8 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 9 | They had detached themselves from the torrent of peoples that in prehistory had poured out of China onto the countless islands of the Pacific and , settling the eastern coastal strip of the Indochina peninsula , they had named their country Nam Viet — Land of the Southern Viet People . |
| 10 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 11 | Five exporting countries ( Botswana , Malawi , South Africa , Zambia and Zimbabwe ) had exempted themselves from the ban . |
| 12 | Of the seven countries which had exempted themselves from the ban , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi , Botswana and South Africa were ivory producers and exporters , while China and Hong Kong were the only countries to continue importing ivory . |
| 13 | The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling . |
| 14 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 15 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 16 | The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction . |
| 17 | The United Stales of America — who had excluded themselves from the League of Nations — did nothing about the matter . |
| 18 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |