Example sentences of "try [to-vb] itself from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 2 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 3 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 4 | Climbing up a steep bank or trying to extricate itself from a mud hole is likely to produce squeals of distress from the infant and the adults nearby will rush over to see what is wrong . |
| 5 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |