Example sentences of "[to-vb] ourselves from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 2 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 5 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 6 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Instead of feeding our fear , we must start to detach ourselves from it . |
| 10 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We are confident we have done nothing wrong , but need to protect ourselves from the arbitrary and capricious actions of our adversaries . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All of us , both men and women , in our early years , had to separate ourselves from our mothers . |
| 16 | We also fight to separate ourselves from them , to establish a degree of self-sufficiency . |
| 17 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 18 | Some of these are deeply rooted and irrational ; they spring from fears about ageing and death and from the psychological need to distance ourselves from selected groups of people ( homosexuals , blacks , etc . ) . |
| 19 | Stereotyping can be dangerous when it allows us to distance ourselves from others , and to fail to see the individual through the distorting lens of our own prejudice . |
| 20 | We wish to distance ourselves from such inferences , even though naturally we would expect our findings to generate constructive discussion about the effective use of pupils ' and teachers ' time in primary schools . |
| 21 | Indeed , many things we do are attempts to shield ourselves from the effects of fear . |