Example sentences of "[modal v] save [pers pn] from the " in BNC.

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1 You must save them from the pursuing aliens , brains and ( what 's that , are you sure ? surely not ) YES ! the HUGE Lavatory !
2 ‘ Silver , ’ he said , ‘ you 're a scoundrel and a murderer , but I 'm told that I must save you from the law . ’
3 The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators .
4 The government insisted this was the reason he secretly contacted Castro to mediate a solution that would save him from the drug dealers ' retribution .
5 If the proposals of early 1858 reached the statute book , " The whole of Russia will turn into nothing more than a military colony ( obratitsia v odno voennoe poselenie ) , and who will save it from the new Arakcheev who is emerging in the person of Iakov Ivanovich Rostovtsev ? "
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