Example sentences of "[noun] 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 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 5 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 6 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 7 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 8 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 9 | It is a lucid symbol of Grimes 's flailing efforts to free himself from reality . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’ |
| 16 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 17 | 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 . |