Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 2 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 3 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 4 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 5 | X , who did not have one in stock , contracted to buy one from Four Point Garage . |
| 6 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 7 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 8 | Katherine struggled to free herself from those fingers which gripped her too fiercely , from that intelligence which probed into her . |
| 9 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 10 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 12 | Now , under the impact of guilt and remorse motivated by the positive side of the original ambivalent feelings for the father , the ego sought to defend itself from further conflict with its id by erecting safety measures which would protect it from such distorting and stressful impulses . |
| 13 | In the light of the current problems regarding a number of prominent figures in the Italian cultural world , have you in any way had to dissociate yourself from any of them ? |
| 14 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 15 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 16 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 17 | Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background . |
| 18 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |
| 19 | In the House of Commons Mrs Thatcher refused to disassociate herself from these comments , although she was invited to do so on three occasions . |