Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 2 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 3 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | She had n't eaten the spinach , and in doing so created a martyrdom ; now she must restrain herself from the agonizing satisfaction of telling Maman all the truth , thus getting Aunt Tossie into dreadful trouble . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 6 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 7 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 8 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 9 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 10 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 11 | Only a small proportion of his men were actually with him now , others coming in singly and in groups as they could disentangle themselves from the embroilment . |
| 12 | The pamphlet explained , in simple terms , how civil servants could protect themselves from the possibility of having their actions and decisions overturned by the courts . |
| 13 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 14 | The dark hair inherited from her father was streaked with grey now , and when she wept , it would loosen itself from the neat coils in which she pinned it over pads called ‘ rats ’ every morning , as if in sympathy , and strands would creep down over her hands and cheeks . |
| 15 | Instead , the endometrium will detach itself from the wall of the uterus ( a new lining will grow during the next month ) and both egg and uteral lining , together with a little blood , will be discharged from the vagina as the process of menstruation . |
| 16 | Presented with ( 32 ) , we therefore read it as a sequence of two events that occurred in that order : ( 32 ) Alfred went to the store and bought some whisky We now see how the semanticist armed with the notion of implicature can extricate himself from the dilemmas raised above in connection with examples ( 4 ) -(7) . |
| 17 | According to folklore you can protect yourself from the fairies by carrying iron , steel or oatmeal . |
| 18 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |