Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teddy disassociates himself from her and eats lots of broccoli almost with his mouth open , just to show how broad-minded he is . |
| 2 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 3 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |
| 4 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 5 | By pushing them into mannerism , Elvis distances himself from their demands , physical and psychological . |
| 6 | He no longer confides in he , as he did in the letter at the beginning , but distances himself from her . |
| 7 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 8 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 9 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 10 | George protects himself from the stink of UB40 's ‘ witty ’ bile |
| 11 | Tod Richardson protects himself from burglars . |
| 12 | One waxed jacket detaches himself from the group and approaches a lone drinker across the bar . |
| 13 | Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death . |
| 14 | He saves himself from inconsistency by criticism , in each case , of the harsh rule of a son and successor ( Thrasydaios at Akragas and Deinomenes at Syracuse ) ; but as with the fall of the tyrannies of old Greece there are deeper causes . |
| 15 | He heaves himself from his swivel-chair , pulls a green bottle from his middle-management mini-fridge , spills most of its contents over me while struggling to insert it between my cracked and contorted lips . |
| 16 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 17 | In business sales cases the conflicting public interests are that a man is not at liberty to deprive himself or the community of his labour and expertise unreasonably and yet he must have a freedom to sell his business for the best price ; which may be only obtainable if he precludes himself from entering into competition with the purchaser ( see James VC in Leather Cloth Co v Lorsont ( 1869 ) LR 9 Eq 354 ) . |