Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.

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1 He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean .
2 She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment .
3 He sat down and helped himself from the coffee-pot on the table , then refilled Lucy 's cup as well .
4 The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves .
5 We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven .
6 He had heard the commotion and roused himself from his noonday nap to come and see what had caused such an uproar .
7 Dear Donna said virtuously that she had to write her report , and disentangled herself from the conversation before she was asked to babysit .
8 We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other .
9 Quite unconsciously he had punished his wife instead of his mother and protected himself from bossy women by holding the marital reigns so tightly .
10 His fingers became fat maggots and detached themselves from his doughnut hands .
11 Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder .
12 Then the Annamite woman began to sob and he relented at last and raised himself from her ; still moaning quietly to herself she scrambled from the cot onto the dirt floor , gathered her scraps of clothing together and fled past the American woman into the rain .
13 On March 13 the Greek government denied that there had been any interference in Albania 's internal affairs , and dissociated itself from a recent declaration by the Metropolitan of Konitsa in which the archbishop had urged Greek Albanians to return to Albania in order to vote in the elections .
14 He escaped with a broken leg and pulled himself from the wreckage before Crowfield emergency services arrived from the club .
15 Although they paid a fee for the transmission rights , they saw the star-studded line-up as an opportunity to boost viewing figures and distanced themselves from any contentious affiliations by renaming the concert Freedom Festival .
16 Michel Foucault ( 1926–1994 ) , who studied under Althusser , took the step his teacher never did and distanced himself from Marxism while remaining politically radical .
17 Mr Thomas Rideout , his successor as Conservative premier , called a snap election for April 20th and distanced himself from the Peckford follies .
18 She twisted her face away and kept herself from crying out .
19 He had found out what awaited him , and removed himself from the scene long enough , he had hoped , to escape the judgement .
20 ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored .
21 With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree .
22 Mark sagged forward on to his desk , straightened up , and dragged himself from the brink of sleep .
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