Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] herself from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 2 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 3 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 4 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 5 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 6 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |