Example sentences of "[noun] detach [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 2 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 3 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 4 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 5 | After a while Harbury and Linda detached themselves from a group and carried their drinks over to join Rain . |
| 6 | Lucenzo detached himself from the crowd and ran up the stairs two at a time , seeing that she 'd frozen . |
| 7 | While Fleury and Harry exchanged a glance of shock and bewilderment at the unfortunate turn the tea party had suddenly taken , an effervescent mass detached itself from one of her breasts , which was revealed to be the shape of a plump carp , then from one of her diamond knee-caps , then an ebony avalanche thundered from her spine down over her buttocks , then from some other part of her . |
| 8 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 9 | To her amusement , two black-cloaked figures in full face masks and tricorn hats detached themselves from a group on a parapet and arranged themselves in exaggerated attitudes of extreme sorrow , one studying a rose , the other a silver mirror . |
| 10 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 11 | Finally Alain detached himself from Claudine 's clinging hands and turned to the house , collecting Jenna with a very hard hand on her arm . |
| 12 | Irish Tom detached himself from the group of workmen and swaggered , grinning , along the corridor . |
| 13 | And it was the conceptual element of Cubism that enabled the painters at various times to detach themselves from visual appearances without losing touch with the material world around them . |
| 14 | She noticed the card , noticed me with widening eyes , and in a short while detached herself from the owners and stood and waited . |
| 15 | Then one end of a crate detached itself from the crates and began to steal away , edging slowly round in a half circle . |
| 16 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 17 | 789 ( CS 262 : S 1183 ) , but whether Lindsey detached itself from Mercian control in 757–8 and , if so , how long an interval elapsed before Offa reasserted himself is unknown . |
| 18 | Two vaguely serpentine exters detached themselves from the group . |
| 19 | One waxed jacket detaches himself from the group and approaches a lone drinker across the bar . |
| 20 | Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis . |
| 21 | Edward was hobbling to a Humber and the little man detached himself from it and came to him . |
| 22 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 445 ) puts it : ‘ As in 1944–45 , employers and managers in a sense detached themselves from the dangerous appeal to the nation , over the heads of the nine million voters who were also affiliated to the TUC ’ . |
| 23 | He is not committed , by his education , to rejecting or despising the community in which he was brought up ; but he should be given the means in some sense to detach himself from it . |
| 24 | As she drew closer , a burly , red-faced police sergeant detached himself from the crowd and moved towards her , notebook in hand . |
| 25 | After a few minutes one of the men detached himself from the group and walked after Fred at a smart pace . |
| 26 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 27 | We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us . |
| 28 | Simply expressed , in a situation in which voters detach themselves from a close identification with parties then issues come to assume a greater significance in voting behaviour and electoral choice . |
| 29 | The Station Chief detached himself from the group . |
| 30 | India detached itself from Africa and set off across what is now called the Indian Ocean , eventually to crunch into south Asia and raise the Himalayas . |