Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be free " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rejoiced in being free from the place , but she talked of it with comprehension and critical affection . |
| 2 | Rohmer still held Gilbert tight as he thrashed to be free . |
| 3 | I checked and the day seemed to be free , ’ she quavered . |
| 4 | It is a standard result that the Hall resistance in a strong field is B/ne , where n is the two-dimensional density of mobile electrons , assumed to be free , independent particles . |
| 5 | People strove to be free of Nature , seeing it as something outside of themselves . |
| 6 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 7 | Shiona wriggled to be free of him . |
| 8 | His intention obvious , Paige fought to be free . |
| 9 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |
| 10 | This means that tunes like ‘ Got To Be Free ’ and ‘ The Message ’ are amongst the best Italian House tracks I 've heard . |
| 11 | I almost connived to be free at last |
| 12 | Austin would apparently give Mach , said to be free of AT&T code , multiple personalities like OS/2 or OSF/1 . |
| 13 | Many of the imperial electors wished to be free from Staufen domination , but they had no constructive plans beyond this goal . |
| 14 | Lectures and concerts were to be given , for which topics of current interest should be very carefully chosen , and which had to be free for all comers . |
| 15 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 16 | For , if students were to fulfil the role cast for them , they had to be free — institutionally and intellectually — to pursue their own inquiries and cognitive interests . |
| 17 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , in a marked shift of attitude , stated before the meeting that the peoples of Europe had to be free to choose their own future , while Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher warned that Germany would press for severe political and economic sanctions against Yugoslavia if the army continued to defy the federal authorities . |
| 18 | The baby clawed to be free of his mother and pressed to the brooches that studded Alexandra 's bosom and Robert , commonly bright-eyed with aggression , stood scarlet and speechless in a stupor of admiration and wonder . |
| 19 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 20 | The Tvrdohlavi , just eight strong , wanted to be free to explore artistic avenues and to meet other creative people away from state influence . |
| 21 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 22 | He wanted to be free . |
| 23 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 24 | He wanted to be free — of all constraints , all material imperatives , of all the forces hunting him and the opportunities drawing him on . |
| 25 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 26 | They seemed in total harmony , but then one of them wanted to be free . |
| 27 | She said she wanted to be free , to finish her training , she was afraid of being tied down . |
| 28 | The USA had also resisted including the " most favoured nation " principle for services on a global basis , which would require that countries treated all trading partners alike ; the USA wanted to be free to discriminate in favour of countries which opened their markets to US services [ see also pp. 37228-29 ] . |
| 29 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |