How can I get back an expression for free variables in solve function.

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I am not sure to fully understand your question, but I also think that it is not well-defined. In your example, you want to express r1 in terms of the variables A to G. But you can write r1 in several manners: r1 = A works, as well as r1 = -B or r1 = C + D - F, etc. So it is not clear to me which answer you are looking for.

Yes, I can see that. And I would just like to have one of these solutions, but probably this is not possible. The reason I am looking for this is that I have a C-vectorspace defined over some symbols (in this case, just a random example, the symbols A,B,C,D,E,F,G) and I want to quotient this space by a space spanned by some linear combinations of these symbols (in this case A+B==0, etc). When I did this by hand, I used the solved function, and could then see that a basis for my quotient space would be <a,-g,d>. To implement this process, I thought of also using the solve function, but it needs to give me an expression for the free variables. But probably this is not really the right approach :)

You may use the VectorSpace constructions (I do not know this well...) :

sage: v = VectorSpace(CC, 7)
sage: A,B,C,D,E,F,G = v.basis()
sage: s = v.subspace([A+B, C+D+E, F+G, A+E-F])
sage: q = v.quotient(s)
sage: [q.lift(x) for x in q.basis()]

    [(1.00000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000),
 (0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 1.00000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000),
 (0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 1.00000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000, 0.000000000000000)]

See more in the doc.

Yes that sounds nice. Any idea how to get rid of the many zeros?

Do you mean the trailing zeroes in each value? Using the field CC, this is the standard display. There has been an attempt to make this standard display customizable but it never converged. Two options for you if you want a different way of displaying the results: Either you work over another field, such as CDF (Complex Double Field) or CIF (Complex Interval Field) which have different behaviors, including a different display. Or you print yourself the result, using format. For instance, if you have the element x = 1.00000000000000, print("{:.4}".format(x)) prints x as a string of length 4, that is 1.00.