Example sentences of "to free [pron] from " 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 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 3 | The French should be reminded what we lost to free them from oppression . |
| 4 | Ember slithered more firmly on her body , his hands mashing hers helpless behind her head despite her attempts to free them from his grasp . |
| 5 | For the centre of the metropolis the aim was to define the function of the various component parts and , while making them more efficient and dignified , to free them from damaging intrusion . |
| 6 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 7 | I need a different kind of exorcism to free me from what he did to me . |
| 8 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 9 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 10 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 11 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |
| 14 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 15 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 16 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 17 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 18 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 23 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 24 | It is a lucid symbol of Grimes 's flailing efforts to free himself from reality . |
| 25 | 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 ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 27 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 28 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 29 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 30 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |