Example sentences of "[noun pl] free [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 3 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 4 | It is a lucid symbol of Grimes 's flailing efforts to free himself from reality . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 7 | 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 . |