Example sentences of "[to-vb] themselves from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , many spin silk to conceal themselves from the world . |
| 2 | They saw the fascist stewards as the Nazi storm troopers trampling upon liberty and were quick to dissociate themselves from the image which the BUF had gained . |
| 3 | He has also observed that an immediate cause of the creation of this new duty of the judges was the royal mandate which ordered the Court of Common Pleas to remain stationary at Westminster instead of perambulating the country in attendance on the King , and the subsequent disinclination of the serjeants , even if they had been sufficient in number , to absent themselves from the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster in order to attend the King 's Court during its perambulatory travels . |
| 4 | Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath . |
| 5 | With cries of ‘ oi gevalt ’ and ‘ keender ! keender ! ’ from Mum and Dad and screams of fear from the girls , the three bodies eventually manage to extricate themselves from the floor . |
| 6 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 7 | I am sure that he will wish to join me in congratulating the governors , the headmaster and the parents involved in the school on their wisdom in applying for grant-maintained status so as to free themselves from the bureaucracy and interference of the local education authority . |
| 8 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 9 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 10 | Men , he said , used to approach the nest 60 yards down on a rope , and holding a piked stick in one hand to protect themselves from the parent birds ’ attacks , with the other hand seize the eggs or chicks , the latter was a valued object and the former they could sell for 5/ each . |
| 11 | Only people who could rely on an extended family network could hope to have the friends and connections necessary to protect themselves from the avarice of the sultan 's lesser officials . |
| 12 | They huddled together to protect themselves from the wind . |
| 13 | They do not have to protect themselves from the monster . |
| 14 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 15 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 16 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |
| 17 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 18 | It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail . |
| 19 | Ministers had no choice but to distance themselves from the bombing . |
| 20 | They came out of the East End to save the charts from unrebellious tat and to save themselves from a life in and out of prison . |
| 21 | The Government encouraged heating and ventilating and plumbing and electrical to remove themselves from the scope of the CITB . |
| 22 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 23 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 24 | In the following year they passed the Septennial Act , which extended the life of Parliament ( including the present one elected under the terms of the Triennial Act ) to seven years , a deliberate attempt to shield themselves from the electorate . |
| 25 | He spoke of the state as mother , of the history of those who clung to the state as mother , of the psychology of those who wished to orphan themselves from the mother , of the novel oddity of a woman prime minister who was in fact a mother but was not nevertheless thereby motherly . |
| 26 | Their navigational system may be simply an urge to move continuously into water that is minimally cooler , and they may also be able to orientate themselves from the direction of the wave surge and the pattern of ripples on the water-surface . |