Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves from " in BNC.
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| 31 | By distancing themselves from the use of violence , the Islamist leaders hoped to move towards eventual legalization of the party . |
| 32 | Or hiding themselves from me , resorting to a whole range of lies and excuses . |
| 33 | We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us . |
| 34 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 35 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 36 | If , for example , an organisation purports to keep a list of undischarged bankrupts , but makes no effort to seek information on persons discharging themselves from bankruptcy , it will be contravening this principle . |
| 37 | Small mammal species ( voles , lemmings ) dig or burrow in snow , isolating themselves from environmental extremes and keeping in touch with food at the ground-snow interface . |
| 38 | Under the guidance of Nehemiah and his successors the Jews were intent on isolating themselves from the surrounding nations . |
| 39 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 40 | When Wickham and Lydia elope and , therefore , flout this social code , they are , effectively , ostracising themselves from the circles they have moved in hitherto . |
| 41 | No sooner had the Minister of Education , Lionel Jospin , stated that the scarves could not be a motive for excluding the girls from school than the teachers ' union , traditionally close to the Socialist Party , called him a traitor and 50 of his deputies signed a petition publicly disaffiliating themselves from his line and asking for his resignation . |
| 42 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 43 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 44 | As events since the early 1970s have shown , many advanced capitalist states have in fact had much less trouble than anticipated in extricating themselves from the provision of collective consumption . |
| 45 | Unlike sharks , they do n't waste energy preventing themselves from sinking . |
| 46 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |
| 47 | In freeing themselves from this burden they may need to make their escape into another language or culture , even by establishing geographical distance over thousands of miles of ocean . |
| 48 | The alternative , they argue , is to let the great mass of people engage in market processes , freeing themselves from such dependency . |
| 49 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |