Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [pn reflx] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 4 | Indeed , it led to the so-called Euro-communism of the 1970s , when communist parties with quite substantial support , as in Spain , Portugal and Italy , began to distance themselves from the policies of the Soviet Union and its satellites . |
| 5 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 6 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 7 | Finally , the Socialists had become more acceptable to the Christian Democrats because they had begun to distance themselves from the Communists after 1956 . |