Example sentences of "distance herself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliana Hatfield might not be a gender warrior or fight city hall , but distances herself from the herd of two-bit supposedly alternative US bar-bands by being outwardly conservative and inwardly maverick . |
| 2 | Generally Lori distanced herself from the relationship . |
| 3 | Ursula retreated into the hall , distancing herself from the gesture , imposing a fraction of her normal self-control . |
| 4 | She was definitely distancing herself from the older woman . |
| 5 | It is another for the Prime Minister to distance herself from the policies of the government of which she is head . |
| 6 | The thought of Norman 's discomfiture at finding her gone cheered her a little and she pressed her foot down on the accelerator , anxious to distance herself from the three of them , to reach the safety of home . |
| 7 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |