Example sentences of "save [pers pn] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand . |
| 2 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 3 | By the testimonies of such as rugby 's Gareth Chilcott and boxing 's Frank Bruno , to name but two of many who have acknowledged how sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters , it can claim an increasingly influential niche in society . |
| 4 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 5 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 6 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 7 | Only the sudden arrival of three new boarders saved her from succumbing to the terror which filled her . |