Example sentences of "detach itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 2 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 3 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 4 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 5 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 6 | The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away . |
| 7 | Then one end of a crate detached itself from the crates and began to steal away , edging slowly round in a half circle . |
| 8 | It had n't reached the zenith of its arc before a black shape detached itself from the shadows in the corner of the room and swooped down , taking the morsel in mid-air . |
| 9 | As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger … |
| 10 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 11 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 12 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 13 | Secondly , the wire gauze could detach itself from the lamp body , permitting the flame to escape and explode in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 14 | Instead , the endometrium will detach itself from the wall of the uterus ( a new lining will grow during the next month ) and both egg and uteral lining , together with a little blood , will be discharged from the vagina as the process of menstruation . |
| 15 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 16 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 17 | Masculine development did not detach itself from the nourishing mother . |
| 18 | When the neural tube closes ( Chapter 2 ) , a group of cells detaches itself at the site of fusion and migrates to many parts of the body and differentiates into a wide variety of cell types . |
| 19 | The placenta detaches itself from the uterine wall and , with other material , is forced out after the baby . |
| 20 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |