Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [vb pp] free " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corruption of the material world through human folly led to a process of decay and death , so that the whole cosmos mourned the loss of sustaining communion and groaned and yearned to be set free . |
| 2 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Does that mean we 're all going to be set free ? ’ |
| 4 | The pitch would have to be climbed free . |
| 5 | AFTER an outstandingly successful year of fund raising in 1990 , totalling £13,000 , Broadstairs ladies ' guild were able to make use of an empty shop in Harbour Street which the owner allowed to be used free of charge . |
| 6 | The collectivist emphases of the 1961 Programme — more and more services such as transport and housing to be provided free of charge , more public catering and shared upbringing of children — found no place in the new text , nor did the promise of a minimum one month paid holiday for all citizens . |
| 7 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 8 | A NUDE model had to be cut free by firemen yesterday after she got plastered — literally . |
| 9 | Rex was trapped by his legs and had to be cut free . |
| 10 | They had to be cut free . |
| 11 | He had to be cut free . |
| 12 | The driver of that car was injured and had to be cut free … two people in a second car which hit the transporter 's tractor unit are also hurt |
| 13 | The 32-year-old pay office clerk , of Griffiths Close , Yarm , who was pregnant , had to be cut free from the wreckage by fireman . |
| 14 | John Byrne , 64 , of Cleveland Avenue , Trimdon Village , had to be cut free from his car after the collision at 11.40 am yesterday . |
| 15 | The dead man , who has n't been named , had to be cut free from his car . |
| 16 | The Israelite people had to be kept free of contamination from outside sources , especially the corrupting influence of Canaanite religion . |
| 17 | Officers refused to confirm reports that he had to be wrestled free by police . |
| 18 | A total of 2,680 houses have to be sold free of the tie by next November . |
| 19 | Nat 's Dachsteins , dropped on a piece of exposed ground , are frozen solidly to it , have to be prised free , and will need to be thawed over the stove . |
| 20 | The danger of writing when you are abnormally tired — as well as bitterly cold — is that you can too easily lose control by digressing too far from the important things that need to be expressed free of any other clutter . |