Example sentences of "try [verb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana would fall asleep immediately he put his head on the pillow , and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace . |
| 2 | Dougal tried to distract himself from what he was doing by treating the wounds as a mental puzzle . |
| 3 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 4 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 5 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 6 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 7 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 8 | Peter tried to detach himself from Molland as they left the solicitor 's office . |
| 9 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 10 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 11 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 12 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 13 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 14 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 15 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 16 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 17 | Horrified , she tried to wrench herself from sleep — then the water struck , roaring round her ears . |
| 18 | Sarah tried to stop herself from feeling happy at this revelation . |
| 19 | The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services . |
| 20 | Do n't try distancing yourself from me by calling me Mr Calder . |
| 21 | Some of them try to dissociate themselves from their group and ‘ fondly imagine ’ their identity to be ‘ different from what others hold it to be ’ . |
| 22 | Try to protect yourself from interruptions — but if an interruption is unavoidable , do n't worry . |
| 23 | This eventually causes the death of one of the boys , as the gang try to protect themselves from being attacked by a rival gang — The Socs . |
| 24 | He knew his Val : he had watched her honourably try to prevent herself from adding that last remark . |
| 25 | Each time I had tried to discharge myself from his surgery , he had reassured me that I was not shamming , there really was something wrong with me . |
| 26 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 27 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 28 | By section 6 , the position is the same if he tries to exempt himself from section 13–15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 29 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 30 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |