Example sentences of "be set free " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mister Morris , you 've been set free then ? ’ |
| 2 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 3 | Nine hostages had been set free since John was taken . |
| 4 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |
| 5 | ‘ I was brought up here by your soldiers and now we have been set free . |
| 6 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |
| 7 | Those who have learnt to accept their difficulties without the glimmer of hope are set free . |
| 8 | Of the latest case , she said : ‘ It is bad enough when justice is made a mockery of with light sentences , or when abusers are set free . |
| 9 | There are all sorts of people involved and the various underground factions , that maybe that one has , er as , probably as an afterthought er considered that , that maybe money in the release of any Western hostages , that may be where the story has come from , but certainly from the informed sources , and the , the , er certainly on the evidence of past hostages releases , er we would n't really have expected that er ransom would be demanded , obviously we have to wait and see when er , when the hostages are set free . |
| 10 | ‘ Does that mean we 're all going to be set free ? ’ |
| 11 | The fear is that Brightness is now too famous and too valuable to be set free . |
| 12 | Insignificant , meagre , thin and tasteless presences who could safely be ignored , who could safely be set free . |
| 13 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 14 | She said you and Abul would be set free . |
| 15 | Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They would be routed for the second time in their existence , and their slaves — the people — would be set free and return to fight with God against them ! |
| 18 | Banque Nationale de Paris ( BNP ) , may well be set free before long . |
| 19 | Animals that you have captured specially for testing should be set free immediately afterwards in the place from which they were taken . |
| 20 | It 's hoped a British engineer and his Australian cousin , kidnapped by the Kurdish rebels in Turkey , could soon be set free . |
| 21 | Soon rumours started that the prisoners in the orphanage would be set free but no one knew where they would go . |
| 22 | The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free . |
| 23 | They say that a release is on the cards this week er they make no mention of any ransom and they say Terry Waite is a priority for release ; he is at the top of a list of Western hostages about to be set free . |
| 24 | Only two of the industries nationalized by Labour were set free — road haulage and ( temporarily as it turned out ) steel . |
| 25 | Waiting in the court were two officers with extradition warrants in case the couple were set free . |
| 26 | The Brethren of the Order were set free to go to Kolossi . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 28 | He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free . |
| 29 | At the universities , the released students were treated like heroes and paraded around triumphantly in scenes probably akin to 1935 , when arrested students from ‘ December Ninth ’ were set free . |
| 30 | By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage . |