Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 2 | Pulling himself away from the older man , he ran after Maisie , who was now somewhere out in the road . |
| 3 | He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast . |
| 4 | JOHN Major attempted to distance himself yesterday from a renewed row over Tory intervention in the US election which threatens to overshadow his first meeting with President Clinton . |
| 5 | If the individual can fence himself off from the prying eyes or fingers of the state , can maintain his private domain in his own way without intervention by public authorities , an important aspect of political liberty is established . |
| 6 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 7 | Uplift yourself from your lower self , even as an elephant draws himself up from a muddy swamp . |
| 8 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 9 | Stewart was sent off 18 minutes from the end of a niggly clash for foolishly slapping Apollon keeper Michalis Christophi across the head as he picked himself up from an innocent penalty-area collision . |
| 10 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
| 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 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Local legend said that the animal used these to hang itself up from a low-hanging branch of a tree at night . |
| 15 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 16 | Easing the damp khaki cotton of her culotte suit away from her perspiring skin , she drained the glass of juice and dragged herself away from the mesmerising sight of the turquoise water and army of waving coconut palms . |
| 17 | She stared grimly ahead , carefully shutting herself off from the cold wind that suddenly blew around her heart . |
| 18 | She unfolded herself carefully from the prickly bushes and rose to her feet . |
| 19 | Unless a mother divorces herself completely from the essential tasks of child care , handing over her baby to others , her role will keep her in touch with the most basic elements of life ! |
| 20 | And in particular the position of Paisley and the DUP was enhanced by having done enough to prove themselves implacably opposed to appeasement of ‘ rebels ’ while distancing themselves sufficiently from the working-class loyalists to avoid the opprobrium of being closely associated with thugs and gangsters . |
| 21 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |
| 22 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 23 | I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work . |
| 24 | ‘ Boys do n't really discuss sex themselves apart from a few who brag about it all the time . |