Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] themselves from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 2 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 3 | The Americans had different views , but they had deliberately distanced themselves from the area . |
| 4 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 5 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |