Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wants attention , he does , ’ murmured Tom , drawing himself away from the window . |
| 2 | Pushing himself away from the walls of the KGB building , Kirov walked in the direction of the Post Office . |
| 3 | Pulling himself away from the older man , he ran after Maisie , who was now somewhere out in the road . |
| 4 | The big Aussie fast bowler had drawn sympathetic applause from the crowd by literally dragging himself wearily from the field at both lunch and tea — minutes after his team-mates had run up the steps . |
| 5 | Much of his childhood , after the death of his father , and early manhood was spent wresting himself away from the embrace of his mother . |