Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |
| 2 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 3 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 4 | Maxie withdrew himself reluctantly from the excitement of the football game he was watching on television . |
| 5 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 6 | Laura hauled herself up from the sofa and went to answer it . |
| 7 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 8 | A few shook themselves loose from the tangle , and pounded onward , others skirted the fallen and fell in behind them . |
| 9 | The meal finished , Stan Carver , placing his hands on each side of his plate , slowly raised himself up from the table and , standing still for a moment , said , ‘ Thank God for a good dinner . ’ |
| 10 | By joining the pro-Iraqi camp the PLO effectively cut itself off from the moderating influences ( and financial backing ) of the Gulf states and Egypt , and rendered highly unlikely any prospects for a resumption of US-Palestinian talks ( broken off in June — see pp. 37547 ; 37626-27 ) . |
| 11 | Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died . |
| 12 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 13 | Mrs Totteridge swung herself down from the horse 's back and strode to the Range Rover . |
| 14 | She swung herself lightly from the jeep and walked slowly alongside the pool . |
| 15 | Angrily , she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood . |
| 16 | The Situationists were idealists in the sense that they perceived themselves apart from the spectacle , always managing to be ‘ other-than-spectacular ’ , as Levin puts it , so that this became a pre-condition of Situationist practice . |
| 17 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 18 | Slowly James Grierson pulled himself up from the floor . |
| 19 | He pulled himself athletically from the cockpit . |
| 20 | Aggie pulled herself up from the seat , saying , tersely now , ‘ Well , love , she has . ’ |
| 21 | Aggie pulled herself up from the chair . |
| 22 | Julia nodded and pulled herself up from the sofa . |
| 23 | He heaved himself up from the kitchen chair and reached for his coat behind the door . |
| 24 | She put a hand up to touch his lips and gently with the other eased herself up from the sofa . |
| 25 | Rachaela eased herself up from the bed of sheets and pillows , skin and hair . |
| 26 | She eased herself slowly from the bed . |
| 27 | She eased herself away from the rail . |
| 28 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 29 | She was an anchoress , one of the many recluses of the period who shut herself away from the world to pray in solitude : we can still see the foundations of her anchorage next to the church which is now called St Julian 's in Norwich . |
| 30 | Then the ship tore herself away from the reef , back broken , thirty feet of bow section diving free . |