Example sentences of "saved him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Addis Ababa is guarded by about 20,000 troops , including President Mengistu 's Praetorian guard , which saved him during the coup attempt in May . |
| 2 | We began to prepare a show which became Pierrot In Turquoise — turquoise because it 's the British symbol of everlastingness and David claims that I saved him — not from Buddhism , not from everlastingness , but from becoming a Tibetan monk . |
| 3 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 4 | Her existence certainly saved him from making decisions : ‘ I 've got to consult my wife ’ always let him off the hook and annoyed the independent Jane . |
| 5 | It saved him the effort . |
| 6 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 7 | Nigel was glad as it saved him breaking his own rules about using the phone . |
| 8 | THE OUTLET-PIPE saved him . |
| 9 | Luckily his jacket had caught on it and saved him from falling . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Sarah , you saved him ! ’ |
| 11 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 12 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 13 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 14 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On another occasion he reflected that only hard work saved him from ‘ that melancholic staring into the abyss ’ . |
| 17 | Maureen Taylor from Mistley Park Place Environmental Centre paid £45 at market for Jack and saved him being sold for meat . |
| 18 | ‘ Derek 's superhuman effort saved him . |
| 19 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 20 | I saved him some chips . ’ |
| 21 | His back had been pierced by a metal spike and only the fact that he remained conscious saved him from being dragged wholly into the moving machinery . |
| 22 | Even then , it was the desertion of allies , the failure of his Italian bankers , and the capture of ransomable kings which saved him from financial disaster . |
| 23 | What saved him was his sense of distance . |
| 24 | But the bull was kneeling on Merry 's overcoat ; and that saved him ! |
| 25 | How the first Kit Everard won the love of an islander and how she saved him and his brave band of pioneers . |
| 26 | More than once only his connections by marriage with John Hampden [ q.v. ] saved him from very serious trouble . |
| 27 | Only experience saved him from despairing at this rag-bag of memories . |
| 28 | He saved him from a mob . |
| 29 | Know what saved him ? " he asked , and jabbed his own ribs with a long straight thumb . |
| 30 | Mahmud Pasa confesses that such is the case , explaining that Abdulkerim saved him from an addiction to wine which , he implies , would have seriously impaired his chances not only for a successful career but for salvation as well . |