Example sentences of "[to-vb] herself from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 2 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 3 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 4 | ‘ She had spirit enough to fling herself from the tower to be free of you . |
| 5 | More often , it turns into loss of direction or of purposeful organization , because no one is willing to separate herself from the rest in order to take charge . |
| 6 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
| 7 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 8 | If Rainbow were left to her own devices , she would undoubtedly now choose to remove herself from the taxi altogether , and pace back and forth in the lay-by , enjoying the comparative peace of the rain and the fumes and the roar of the juggernauts until she could get the show back on the road once more . |
| 9 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 10 | She was just about to investigate when a long , shuddering breath from the man at her feet reminded her that it might be as well to remove herself from the scene before the winded assailant recovered enough to take his revenge . |
| 11 | It is meant for me , Lily thought : hardly able to drag herself from the journey she had just made ( bitter enough surely ? ) into the past . |