Example sentences of "to free [pron] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 2 | In his other hand a grenade with the pin removed so he could n't put it down to free himself from the handcuffs , and so from the chair , and so from the room . |
| 3 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 4 | The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy . |
| 5 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 6 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 7 | Mary Daly , in Pure Lust ( 1984 ) , a polemical book subtitled ‘ Elemental Feminist Philosophy ’ which explicitly and insistently refuses to fit the usual categories of what philosophy is supposed to consist of , argues that the passions and their relation to reason must be renamed , and thus reunderstood by women if they wish to free themselves from the constrictions inherent in the male naming of them . |