Example sentences of "free herself from " in BNC.

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1 She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory .
2 He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt .
3 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 .
4 Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family .
5 Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate .
6 So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series .
7 Katherine struggled to free herself from those fingers which gripped her too fiercely , from that intelligence which probed into her .
8 Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth .
9 And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing .
10 Barbara Coleman freed herself from Rain 's hold .
11 For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure .
12 Carrie freed herself from repression by both her schoolfriends and her religious fanatic of a mother .
13 She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever .
14 Freeing herself from his arms , she picked up the coffee pot and whisked out of the kitchen before he could take hold of her again .
15 She sat up in bed , freeing herself from Lowell 's arms .
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