Example sentences of "free himself from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 2 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 3 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 4 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 5 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 6 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 7 | Her boyfriend freed himself from the car boot . |
| 8 | Her boyfriend freed himself from the car boot . |
| 9 | Little by little he freed himself from the control of the political groups , at the same time successfully exposing their divisions and their increasing isolation . |
| 10 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 11 | The young lover proposes to lie back and watch others work while he listens to birds singing , freeing himself from the duty and responsibility shepherds would have been expected to attend to . |