Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] themselves from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some lesbians exploited the opportunity to distance themselves from dirty , dangerous male sexuality , a vastly disproportionate number devoted themselves to AIDS work . |
| 2 | As his army approached close to the walls of Toulouse itself the townspeople seized the opportunity to emancipate themselves from comital authority . |
| 3 | I should happily give way — if it were in my power to do so — to give them the opportunity to dissociate themselves from that appalling motion . |
| 4 | It is impossible for the participants to distance themselves from the situation sufficiently to analyse their own behaviour in all its complex detail . |
| 5 | As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? " |
| 6 | Children could have the right to remove themselves from the at risk register of an 11-year old girl wins her test case in the High Court . |
| 7 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 8 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 9 | There was drill to teach the men to extricate themselves from the several hazards that might be encountered , for the dangers of a night drop over woods or water were obvious . |
| 10 | All the children blessed themselves from the fount and went straight up to the altar . |
| 11 | We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us . |
| 12 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 13 | So plants , quite naturally , have the ability to protect themselves from predators , just as all other creatures do . |
| 14 | The Yek served themselves from their plates by extending their talons — in some cases the needle-sharp claws were more than three centimetres long — forking impaled meat into their mouths . |