Example sentences of "free [pn reflx] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 2 | But overall , it was by turning to their own bodies that women artists could free themselves from surrealist stereotypes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Political , economic , and scientific functions had gradually freed themselves from religious control . |
| 5 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 6 | As Margaret Anne Doody puts it : ‘ Leapor plays with the fascination of female ugliness in such a manner as to free herself from conventional claims of feminine proprieties . |
| 7 | Katherine struggled to free herself from those fingers which gripped her too fiercely , from that intelligence which probed into her . |
| 8 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 11 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 14 | The alternative , they argue , is to let the great mass of people engage in market processes , freeing themselves from such dependency . |
| 15 | In freeing themselves from this burden they may need to make their escape into another language or culture , even by establishing geographical distance over thousands of miles of ocean . |
| 16 | We are aware that serial killers and the like are merely expressing themselves , working out their various hang-ups and generally freeing themselves from those inhibitions which might , if suppressed , make them less complete human beings . |