Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not easy for him to separate himself from Marian . |
| 2 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 3 | But the broken right shin and thigh bones did n't stop him discharging himself from hospital . |
| 4 | He discharged himself from Hartlepool General Hospital yesterday and last night detectives were waiting to question him as part of their inquiries . |
| 5 | He discharged himself from hospital against medical advice , saying he could not bear to be in the same building as Keith Pringle , the man police are waiting to interview about a 47hour armed siege in Darlington . |
| 6 | He disentangled himself from Madra before dawn to share his watch with Bicker , and the two of them saw the sun come up . |
| 7 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |
| 8 | Time after time he defended himself from Carter , time after time the screw intervened , again and again he was n't pushed to the floor . |
| 9 | He dissociated himself from Tony Benn 's provocative statement that a printer had as much right to regulate the contents of a newspaper as the editor or anyone else . |
| 10 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 11 | However , he disassociated himself from NDF 's violent political activities which were carried out between 1979 and 1981 . |
| 12 | Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) . |
| 13 | Dutch chiaroscuro , dark and sombre , would hold him for a while yet , until he freed himself from Rembrandt , Millet , and Israëls and turned to Delacroix 's symphonies of colour . |
| 14 | He saves himself from inconsistency by criticism , in each case , of the harsh rule of a son and successor ( Thrasydaios at Akragas and Deinomenes at Syracuse ) ; but as with the fall of the tyrannies of old Greece there are deeper causes . |