Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] free " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rafts of logs , waiting for shipment , had been ripped free of their bindings , smashing through concrete buildings as if they were built of playing cards . |
| 2 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 3 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 4 | In part , this is because the country 's main coal-fired power plants had been awarded free permits for 75 per cent of their " baseline " output ( calculated on the basis of their average emissions in the 1980s ) . |
| 5 | In my early research for this book it was evident that where applicants paid a fee to attend a course , the attendance and completion figures were significantly higher than where courses had been provided free of charge . |
| 6 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 7 | Nine hostages had been set free since John was taken . |
| 8 | In 1950 a scientist by the name of Immanuel Velikovsky caused a considerable furore in the historical , religious and astronomical worlds by stating unequivocally that the flooding was caused by Venus which had been wrenched free from Jupiter and made an uncomfortably close encounter with earth . |