Example sentences of "have [verb] free [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Prince has floated free of grassroots or use value , and ascended to an aristocratic , aerial domain of licence and luxury — where he 's instigated a promiscuous chaos of stylistic miscegenation . |
| 2 | But first this lunchtime , a woman who plotted the murder of her husband has walked free from the High Court in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | A teenager who admitted the new joy-riding offence of aggrevated vehicle taking has walked free from court at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire . |
| 4 | A nurse has walked free from an appeal court after a conviction for assaulting an elderly patient was thrown out . |
| 5 | A nurse has walked free from an appeal court after a conviction for assaulting an elderly patient was quashed . |
| 6 | A man who barricaded himself into his house after threatening to shoot a tax inspector has walked free from court . |
| 7 | A man has walked free from court after admitting handling money from an armed raid on a post office . |
| 8 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 9 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 10 | A nurse who was burgled while she slept says she 's disgusted that the man convicted of using her stolen chequebook has walked free from court . |
| 11 | One of these developed an adenoma six years later , which was removed at colonoscopy and has remained free of dysplasia since ( 6 years ) . |
| 12 | She 'd been so certain that , as the years went by , she would at last have broken free of his spell . |
| 13 | When the BBC surveyed four thousand drug users and their families in 1986 , half of the users were found to have broken free from their addiction . |
| 14 | And she had broken free with a scandalized exclamation : ‘ Damien ! |
| 15 | Bushes of prickly blackberry and wild rose had broken free of the lower level and were now marching towards the house like an insidious green army . |
| 16 | Half of the stucco work had crumbled away and some of the shutters on the windows had broken free of their hinges to dangle precariously over the street . |
| 17 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 18 | At last , the Rolls had broken free of Piccadilly 's logjam and was making its way at something approaching normal speed towards Knightsbridge . |
| 19 | The villagers who had broken free of their graves began advancing on the Marines . |
| 20 | But in Urquhart , standing there facing him that night , she encountered a ratchet that had broken free of its retaining spring and was spinning in reverse . |
| 21 | Sleep had flattened one side of her Afro and a curl had broken free above her forehead . |
| 22 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 23 | And even though his kiss was far from a lover 's caress , she felt her body respond , acting as though it had broken free from the control of her mind , curving into him , begging for more of his savage domination . |
| 24 | By the time Contralto had won free of the nettles , Cleo had already reached the door . |
| 25 | The modern world had struggled free of the past . |
| 26 | I think it 's time we bivouacked ’ , I muttered , when we had struggled free of the rope . |
| 27 | Qassem Emin , the political activist , who had made free with his denunciations of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council , had been tortured and had his throat slit in Turkey . |
| 28 | Clare said , ‘ I do n't want another relationship until I 've struggled free of this one . ’ |
| 29 | Then Mitch Cook flung himself in the way of a goalbound Gary Bennett drive after Rimmer had squirmed free down the left . |
| 30 | He put one hand against the wall , close enough to touch a strand of her hair which had pulled free from the cap , and he imprisoned her in that dark corner . |