Example sentences of "[noun] free [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 2 | Delineating his theory of retreat into illness as a means of obtaining power , he wrote , ‘ Every neurosis must be understood as an attempt to free oneself from a feeling of inferiority in order to gain a feeling of superiority . ’ |
| 3 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 4 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 5 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 6 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 7 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 8 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 9 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 10 | Carrie freed herself from repression by both her schoolfriends and her religious fanatic of a mother . |
| 11 | In the fifth century there were only two kings of Cyrene before the monarchy fell some time before c.450 , Battos IV ‘ The Fair ’ and Arkesilas IV ; in about the middle of the century , Cyrene freed itself from the never very oppressive control of Persia , perhaps following the lead of the Egyptian revolt . |
| 12 | It is a lucid symbol of Grimes 's flailing efforts to free himself from reality . |
| 13 | She pointed to the frieze under the formidable warrior-king : ‘ General Yorck , General Blücher , General Scharnhorst , principal generals of the War of Liberation in which the German people freed themselves from French occupation in 1813 . |
| 14 | The very powers of rationality which enabled modern man to free himself from nature and control it had also become an instrumental device to dominate him . |
| 15 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 16 | Barbara Coleman freed herself from Rain 's hold . |
| 17 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
| 18 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 19 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 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 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |
| 22 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 23 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 24 | Her boyfriend freed himself from the car boot . |
| 25 | Her boyfriend freed himself from the car boot . |