Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 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 wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 5 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 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 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |
| 9 | I believe that Wales continues to be less severely affected by the recession than the United Kingdom as a whole , but it can not possibly shield itself from the recession both in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the world . |
| 10 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 11 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 12 | There 's many a a mum you know , who 'll who 'll clothe herself from a jumble sale . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 15 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 16 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 17 | The two Skaven heads will bite anyone who opens the doors ( WS +20 for this ) ; they can also detach themselves from the doors , flying around the coach-house and attacking anyone they find . |
| 18 | Knowing the effect this had on me I could never conceal myself from a child of mine . |
| 19 | In other words , whilst appearing to criticize the antisemitism of Streicher and The Protocols , the author does not wholly distance himself from the traditions of antisemitism . |
| 20 | 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) . |
| 21 | Initiative members argue an ACE/Intel machine would have helped Intel distinguish itself from the cloners nipping most furiously at its heels . |
| 22 | In any event the ‘ Far East ’ solution depended , with rather specious simplicity , on the ability to separate communist sheep from nationalist goats and even though the distinction was recognized as the sine qua non of a solution , it assumed that those who would not support genuine independence , once it was granted by the French , would identify themselves as communists : and would thereby distinguish themselves from the rest of the ‘ nationalist elements ’ who comprised the major part of the resistance forces . |
| 23 | Almost all the advocates of the confessional approach today would in fact distance themselves from the kind of RE that this has often produced in the past . |
| 24 | Through the manipulation of doles in times of dearth , the putting up of prizes for sports and the supplying of beer for calendrical and special festivities , together with an elaborate and conscious " social theatre " of ceremony , the gentry were able to rule and distance themselves from the consequences of their own exploitation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | According to folklore you can protect yourself from the fairies by carrying iron , steel or oatmeal . |
| 29 | Morrissey reluctantly made the odd appearance ( although he would later disassociate himself from the organisation ) . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |