Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] themselves from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file . |
| 2 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 3 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
| 4 | Justifiably or not , the Soviet Union in the later Brezhnev years had provided no advertisement for socialism , and even communist parties in other countries had felt compelled to distance themselves from the Soviet model and the heritage of Leninism . |
| 5 | Finally , the Socialists had become more acceptable to the Christian Democrats because they had begun to distance themselves from the Communists after 1956 . |