Example sentences of "[pron] from it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of feeding our fear , we must start to detach ourselves from it . |
| 2 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 3 | Although he is one of the Irish gang , Flood will not enter fully into union business , yet nor will he sever himself from it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Althusser shared Sartre 's opposition to Stalinism 's emphasis on economism and technical determinism , dissociating himself from it not through an assertion of individual agency but through a reformulation of the Marxist thesis of determination by economic relations — redefined as a causal rather than a historical relation . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it remains something of a puzzle that , when this movement did flourish during the 1920s and 1930s , Pound went out of his way to distance himself from it . |
| 7 | The day after Myeni 's warning , Buthelezi distanced himself from it in a statement denying that any decision had been taken to deploy fighters . |
| 8 | Edward was hobbling to a Humber and the little man detached himself from it and came to him . |
| 9 | What you yourself have now chosen to tell us can neither undo that truth , nor absolve you from it . |
| 10 | I can conceive no response , no criticism which does not include the practical recognition of that tension , but such is the nature of Joyce 's last venture that I can not , without cheating , read to you from it . |
| 11 | We agents , however , must represent anything with the air of a cock-up only as an opportunity to demonstrate the Partei 's brilliance in extricating itself from it . |
| 12 | These " necessary steps " , Bush said , included " condemning the [ May 30 ] operation , dissociating itself from it , and beginning to take steps to discipline Abul Abbas , the perpetrator " . |
| 13 | If we read the book in their way — whether we are reading Dante , or Chaucer , or Isadore of Seville — we will get something from it . |
| 14 | It 's a feature we always enjoy compiling as we never fail to learn something from it . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've learned something from it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I think any student going through higher education is getting something from it if they come in as some measure sceptical , in some measure critical , that they 're not prepared to take things at face value . |
| 17 | Which is why you s when you set it up , you 've got to say , Well what are people going to do at the end of the workshop , that demonstrates that they 've learnt something from it ? |
| 18 | If you have to put this stuff in I think that you should be obliged to include a joke so that the rest of us can get something from it . |
| 19 | I get nothing from it . |
| 20 | It is almost impossible to visit a museum , and learn nothing from it at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Fake ’ Intermediates were students who had done the Beginners ' course but learned nothing from it . |
| 22 | He borrowed nothing from it or any other local text , but introduced a new routine of life almost exclusively dependent on the latest developments at Cluny . |
| 23 | Blanche stared into his face but could read nothing from it . |
| 24 | I 'd learned nothing from it at all . |
| 25 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 26 | I said , ‘ If there is naught else in Paradise for me but this delight which I have in my own nature , no other blessing will I want and not even the houris and sugarcane of Paradise will divert me from it . ' ’ |
| 27 | He went on : ‘ The truth of the matter is that Mr Branson and the Virgin Group appear to be ’ determined to get the company exclusively for themselves and to exclude me from it . |
| 28 | They must have constantly wondered whether they would ever return to the world outside the moat that separated them from it , a moat that also served as a sewer . |
| 29 | When passing on to them family news , which they are usually anxious to hear , remember that the time for leaning on them with your more serious troubles is now past ; so unless there is some inescapable reason for giving them bad news , try to protect them from it , for they will probably be worrying about it in isolation until your next visit . |
| 30 | Richard Carlile told Francis Place of his belief that women ‘ had an almost constant desire for copulation ; the customs of society alone , I think , debar them from it ’ . |