Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] themselves from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Americans had different views , but they had deliberately distanced themselves from the area . |
| 5 | However , they can still disassociate themselves from the apology . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only the nationalist Irish explicitly exempted themselves from the interplay of national identity and shared sentiments through games . |