Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The G M B is a progressive union , we can support constructive change but we can not support any changes that will disenfranchise ourselves from our Party . |
| 2 | There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character . |
| 3 | Only on Wednesday night , back in his Islwyn constituency , did Kinnock finally free himself from the trappings of self-importance imposed by his minders . |
| 4 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 5 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 6 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 7 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Sudan , he said , would " free itself from dependence on relief supplies and achieve self-sufficiency in food production in a year or two " . |
| 9 | and the mind can free itself from anywhere . |
| 10 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 11 | He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt . |
| 12 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 13 | Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist : |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll hang myself from the bars under the light , ’ she said , desperate to sound convincing . |
| 15 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 16 | It was an article of faith with this circle that women must free themselves from the erotic patronage of men . |
| 17 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 18 | But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes . |
| 19 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 20 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
| 21 | You should free yourself from thinking of them . |
| 22 | I want Bob to become well known , too , so that he can liberate himself from me . ’ |
| 23 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |
| 24 | The tragedy is that life has now become complex and involved , and they wonder if they can ever break themself from all those things that are now hindrances . |
| 25 | As soon as he could discharge himself from hospital Hoppy returned to his command , briefed to harass the Japanese as they began to fall back . |
| 26 | Now , however , to his intense discomfort , Hugo found there was no way he could prevent himself from thinking about Greg Martin . |
| 27 | A short time later he could n't prevent himself from asking whether she did n't love him just a little . |
| 28 | No one , at any level in a structure from chief executive downwards , can exclude himself from this commitment . |
| 29 | Such was the Doctor 's rage , so accustomed was Louise to obedience , that she could not prevent herself from hurrying to execute his orders . |
| 30 | Alice could hardly prevent herself from openly exulting . |