Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 2 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 3 | A plant produces essential oils for its own survival : to influence growth and production ; to attract pollinating insects ; to repel predators ; and to protect itself from disease . |
| 4 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 5 | They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ . |
| 6 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 7 | 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 . |