Example sentences of "himself from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Poor overweight Peter Horbury , the new Lord Woodleigh began to heave himself from his deckchair and then sank back into it . |
| 3 | ‘ He put his foot between the two bottom rungs of the ladder and then caught at the upright to save himself from staggering . |
| 4 | One , the unforgettable ‘ incantation ’ , the ‘ melody ’ and ‘ tune ’ of the services — things which were deeply rooted in his soul , and would reappear with striking force through his music and songs ; and two , his distancing himself from its strictly religious aspects . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 7 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 8 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 9 | Another former confidant , John Biffen , in effect removed himself from the government after coded criticism of the Prime Minister 's strident , dogmatic style . |
| 10 | In his other hand a grenade with the pin removed so he could n't put it down to free himself from the handcuffs , and so from the chair , and so from the room . |
| 11 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 12 | As she drew closer , a burly , red-faced police sergeant detached himself from the crowd and moved towards her , notebook in hand . |
| 13 | How could such a one as Hatton restrain himself from making a splash ? |
| 14 | The tears on Cullam 's cheeks awoke in him a nausea and a rage so fierce that it was all he could do to prevent himself from striking him . |
| 15 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 16 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 17 | He has steadily distanced himself from Mr Zhivkov 's heavy-handed policies and introduced more tolerance in Bulgaria . |
| 18 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 19 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |
| 20 | Mr Endara was moved to distance himself from proposals in Washington to support anti-Noriega parties with CIA funds , describing the scheme as ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Tebbit was keen yesterday to distance himself from any comparison with Mr Powell . |
| 22 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |
| 23 | Mr Walesa has now apparently decided to stress the more open-minded traditions of Polish patriotism — Poland was once a central European melting pot — and to distance himself from the foreigner-hating sort of nationalism to be found among some Polish politicians and churchmen . |
| 24 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 25 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 26 | When one of the fattest hailed him when he was out shopping he decided he must disassociate himself from that crowd . |
| 27 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 28 | But he could hardly keep himself from laughing out loud in anticipation : he crammed his fist into his mouth to stifle the outburst . |
| 29 | He could not stop himself from thinking about it and he shuddered , as he imagined again Simon 's hands around his neck . |
| 30 | Unbalanced , he was forced to plunge his foot back in to stop himself from falling headlong . |