Example sentences of "to free [pers pn] from [art] " 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 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 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 | Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius . |
| 5 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 6 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 7 | He wrenched the knife back and forth to free it from the planking . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The congregation — perhaps 400 people , from outrageous punks to young women with babies — prayed with him ‘ to free us from the temptation of power , the temptation of violence — remove us from the barriers of ideology . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a new secret organization of nationalists and patriots working to free us from the French ! " |
| 11 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |