Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] himself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He put his foot between the two bottom rungs of the ladder and then caught at the upright to save himself from staggering . |
| 2 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 3 | In any case where the buyer ‘ deals as consumer ’ it is impossible for the seller to exempt himself from any of his liability under sections 12–15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 4 | It is impossible for the seller to exempt himself from liability under section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 5 | Even stronger than the need to disentangle himself from his father was his desire to break free from any association with those money-grubbing relatives of his , ‘ Messrs Van Gogh and Co , . |
| 6 | Then he slipped , and caught at the grass to stop himself from going to the bottom . |
| 7 | A very fine , possibly Oscar-winning central performance from Robert Downey Jr , who imbues the essentially unsympathetic Chaplin with a sharp comic touch while showing how the clown distanced himself from family and friends . |
| 8 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 9 | Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death . |
| 10 | Jolted abruptly out of her paralysis by this drastic reduction of their adversaries , Isabel suddenly became aware of the curses of the fellow untangling himself from fitzAlan 's cloak . |
| 11 | The solicitor detached himself from another group and joined them . |
| 12 | He fought with everything he had — his helmet , his raincoat , his truncheon , his kicks , rubble from the ground ; he even used the van to shield himself from the frenzied attack which relentlessly beat him back . |