Example sentences of "[noun sg] herself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 3 | But she could not distance herself from her friend 's tragedy . |
| 4 | By returning to Ockham House , she could distance herself from events and reclaim a reassuring degree of privacy . |
| 5 | Hers is a vulnerable yet crucial role as negotiator between difference : typically she is one who refuses to outcast herself from the black community and family , because aware of its value and importance , yet by virtue of that same tact subjected within them to sexual discrimination : ‘ we straddle the fence that says we can not be uplifters of the race and lesbians at the same time ’ ( ‘ Talking about It ’ , 54 ) . |
| 6 | Kaye made the gorgeous patchwork bedspread herself from oddments of Liberty and Thai silk . |
| 7 | Just before the first egg is layed , the male seals the female in with a wall of clay and mud , helped by the female herself from within . |