Example sentences of "to free [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 2 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 3 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 4 | It was not long before Tony joined me in an attempt to free himself of the sizzling mushrooms . |
| 5 | First of all he had to free himself of his arrangement with Paul Guillaume . |
| 6 | In a last desperate attempt to free himself of investigation , Nixon dismissed the special prosecutor Cox in October 1973 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |
| 9 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 10 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 18 | Unable to free himself from the tangle of ropes and floats , Miles swam laboriously across to his daughter . |
| 19 | It is a lucid symbol of Grimes 's flailing efforts to free himself from reality . |
| 20 | It was a box , shaking itself madly to free itself of the smashed timber around it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 23 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 26 | Bair unflinchingly demonstrates the extent to which de Beauvoir was obsessed by Sartre , unwilling and unable to free herself of him and sacrificing everything to him , including other women . |
| 27 | To free herself of it , Ronni sat down quickly on the wooden seat behind her . |
| 28 | She had twisted and turned , struggling to free herself to no avail , until a well-aimed kick had won her a temporary respite . |
| 29 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 30 | 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 . |