Example sentences of "detach [pn reflx] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally Alain detached himself from Claudine 's clinging hands and turned to the house , collecting Jenna with a very hard hand on her arm . |
| 2 | India detached itself from Africa and set off across what is now called the Indian Ocean , eventually to crunch into south Asia and raise the Himalayas . |
| 3 | The Iranians might welcome a secession in Iraq 's south , especially if the Shias who detached themselves from Baghdad chose later to attach themselves to their co-religionists in Tehran . |
| 4 | Peter tried to detach himself from Molland as they left the solicitor 's office . |
| 5 | From Central Office , and from around his entourage , came the unmistakable signs of fair-weather friends preparing to detach themselves from blame for defeat . |
| 6 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 7 | She found no difficulty in detaching herself from Leif 's advances , so why did she seem pathologically incapable of breaking contact now ? |