Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] themselves from the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
2 | Fewer and fewer Labour people can any longer distract themselves from the common assertion that Mr Kinnock is surrounded by men who are more able and winning than he is . |
3 | By the late 1960s all of the orthodox parties , with the partial exception of Colombia , had clearly distanced themselves from the armed struggle . |
4 | Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record : |
5 | They carefully distanced themselves from the dirty work , but did n't hesitate to employ his services . |
6 | Regional roots aside , the band always wisely distanced themselves from the now-dead scene — but , as Andy candidly remarks , ‘ everybody said that , did n't they ? |
7 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |
8 | At the end of the book , these opposing characters become closer and their real love for each other shows through the bitter shell that they hid under to protect themselves from the awful life they lead . |
9 | His own research on female undergraduate students of physics provides further support for this conclusion ; many of them explicitly dissociated themselves from the male physics students and their ambitions . |