Example sentences of "[verb] to save [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who were you in your arrogance to try to save him from his wish ? |
| 2 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 3 | And in his case , too , God intervened to save him from death . |
| 4 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
| 5 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 6 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 7 | The Great Britain forward , sent off for tripping Mike Ford in Saturday 's Regal Trophy defeat by Castleford , presented video evidence to yesterday 's Rugby League disciplinary committee , but it failed to save him from a two-match ban . |
| 8 | As we all know now the group was formed to save it from extinction and now ‘ Duke ’ is happily not only still with us but thriving . |
| 9 | And then , ‘ When she first cam , I meant to save her from misery like mine . ’ |
| 10 | They go back , they interfere , they try to save her from herself . |
| 11 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |
| 12 | More than that , she nearly died to save you from the results of your own jealousy and spite . |
| 13 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 14 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 15 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 16 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 17 | She genuinely cares for the boy and is determined to save him from a life of crime . |
| 18 | The world is determined to believe benighted rubbish : he is determined to save it from itself . |
| 19 | ‘ There is nothing I can do or say to save you from the wrath of God , or indeed from the wrath of your own father , poor man . ’ |
| 20 | She also wanted to save them from slaughter for the sum of two hundred pounds . |
| 21 | It was as if events had conspired to make her forget Ascot , Pendero , the fact that the most important person in her world had been clubbed to death because he wanted to save her from the fate that he had suffered . |
| 22 | I wanted to save you from being damned for all eternity . ’ |