Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] themselves from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way the individual cells could protect themselves from danger . |
| 2 | The will of King Eadred ( 946 – 55 ) left £1,600 so that his people could redeem themselves from famine or a heathen army , Cnut defeated thirty ships of pirates early in his reign , and Domesday Book says that under Edward the Confessor ( 1042 – 66 ) the hidage ( broadly , tax ) assessment of Fareham in Hampshire was reduced " on account of the Vikings , because it is on the sea " . |
| 3 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 4 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 5 | But , given that brains , books and computers exist , these new replicators , which I called memes to distinguish them from genes , can propagate themselves from brain to brain , from brain to book , from book to brain , from brain to computer , from computer to computer . |
| 6 | If harmful insects can protect themselves from attack by displaying special markings that warn away predators , then it follows that harmless insects can benefit by mimicking them . |