Example sentences of "[verb] ourselves from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , granted that much , " We " then further discriminate ourselves from other men by elaborations of these same three distinctions : |
| 2 | The G M B is a progressive union , we can support constructive change but we can not support any changes that will disenfranchise ourselves from our Party . |
| 3 | We walked straight to the head of the queue and helped ourselves from a huge cauldron which was steaming on top of an oven . |
| 4 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 5 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 6 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 7 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 8 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 9 | This does not mean that we can not be friends with an unbeliever — obviously , we can not reach people for Christ if we insulate ourselves from non-Christian company . |
| 10 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 11 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 12 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 13 | But we wanted from the start to dissociate ourselves from the arrogant and ignorant belief that in some mysterious way English is superior to other languages , and that children who speak Bengali or Hindi at home should abandon these languages as soon as possible . |
| 14 | This would be a counterblast to the growing propaganda of the Left , not only in Oxford but outside — in fact , I suggested that it should be called Counterblast , with Wyndham Lewis 's ‘ puce monster ’ , Blast , in mind — but we were as anxious to dissociate ourselves from the Right . |
| 15 | We are enjoined to transcend our bodily selves and we are enjoined to erm move to the level of intellect through contemplation , that is by pursuing philosophy we will withdraw ourselves from our mere bodily selves and be elevated to the realm of intellect . |
| 16 | Let us pray today that we may be gentle with ourselves , guarding ourselves from relationships that might exploit us or be hurtful . |
| 17 | Instead of feeding our fear , we must start to detach ourselves from it . |
| 18 | So when we have real emotions about someone , we lift ourselves from the shallow level of selfishness into the real and eternal . |
| 19 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 20 | It is when we use our uniqueness to feel ‘ better than ’ that we separate ourselves from others and thereby create misery and suffering . |
| 21 | We have divorced ourselves from the landscape and the countryside and one of the implications of this is that we are apt to see our visits to ancient sites from the perspective of the tourist — as a spectacle . |
| 22 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We are confident we have done nothing wrong , but need to protect ourselves from the arbitrary and capricious actions of our adversaries . ’ |
| 24 | To protect ourselves from physical rather than social attack , we must extend that private area and , in times of danger , exclude from it anyone who is not a known friend . |
| 25 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 26 | It makes me incredibly angry to think what a brainless , totally impossible , ‘ perfect ’ image of womanhood the media present , and that so many of us , me included , are intelligent but ca n't seem to separate ourselves from wanting those ideals . |
| 27 | All of us , both men and women , in our early years , had to separate ourselves from our mothers . |
| 28 | We also fight to separate ourselves from them , to establish a degree of self-sufficiency . |
| 29 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 30 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |