Example sentences of "[noun sg] to free [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It was not long before Tony joined me in an attempt to free himself of the sizzling mushrooms . |
2 | In a last desperate attempt to free himself of investigation , Nixon dismissed the special prosecutor Cox in October 1973 . |
3 | Delineating his theory of retreat into illness as a means of obtaining power , he wrote , ‘ Every neurosis must be understood as an attempt to free oneself from a feeling of inferiority in order to gain a feeling of superiority . ’ |
4 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
5 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
6 | The very powers of rationality which enabled modern man to free himself from nature and control it had also become an instrumental device to dominate him . |
7 | Friends on the ground watched in horror as he was towed along for 20 seconds before managing to pull an emergency handle to free himself from the snagged chute . |
8 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
9 | By going even so short a distance , however , men could free themselves from the control of their lord and the custom of the manor , and it is clear that one can see a similar situation elsewhere in the country ; families were prepared to leave the land to free themselves from their lords ( 79 , p.35 ) . |
10 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |