Example sentences of "save [pers pn] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villagers of Visiga call Safarimoja ‘ The Saviour ’ because they credit his discovery with saving them from hunger . |
| 2 | The family I now had , the people who had saved me from starvation , I could now help them ! |
| 3 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 4 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 5 | She wanted to die , saving him from death . |
| 6 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 7 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 8 | Only God 's intervention has saved him from death by stoning . |
| 9 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 10 | The European Commission agreed not to claim back a DM175m ( $111m ) loan from Klöckner-Werke , a German steel and engineering group , saving it from bankruptcy . |
| 11 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 12 | He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren , thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction . |
| 13 | ‘ But Jesus made me , so Jesus save me from pity , sympathy , and people discussing me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But Jesus made me , so Jesus save me from pity , sympathy , and people discussing me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ God save me from bank managers and accountants ! ’ he said to Christina . |
| 16 | Scrupulous honesty , and a strong sense of the ridiculous — she can be very funny — save her from sentimentality . |
| 17 | The Confederation of British Industry stepped forward with a plan that practically doubled the sum to be spent by the government : £21 billion to rewrite the nation 's economic geography and save it from catastrophe . |
| 18 | She also wanted to save them from slaughter for the sum of two hundred pounds . |
| 19 | The Carey family had to rely on a house provided by a Bengali moneylender to save them from destitution . |
| 20 | The news will throw Tottenham 's future to fresh confusion and leave the club hoping desperately that manager Terry Venables can put together a deal to save them from collapse . |
| 21 | IT probably wo n't be enough to save them from relegation to Division II , but Dundee HSFP reproduced some of last season 's promotion-winning style in regaining much lost pride at Mayfield on Saturday . |
| 22 | Recently , and at vast expense , Loch Ken has been revitalised and restocked , because it had become fishless ; and there is evidence that many other lochs , surrounded by conifer plantations , will need similar treatment to save them from ruin in the foreseeable future . |
| 23 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 24 | And then , ‘ When she first cam , I meant to save her from misery like mine . ’ |
| 25 | ANOTHER former employee of Mrs Winnie Mandela has said he lied in court to save her from implication in the murder of Stompie Moeketsi . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd do anything to save her from pain . ’ |
| 27 | A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . |
| 28 | And in his case , too , God intervened to save him from death . |
| 29 | In 1910 the great hall with its spectacular painted oak and chestnut roof and vaulted stone oriel was transplanted from Bishopsgate in the City of London to Chelsea , to save it from demolition . |
| 30 | Once the scheme is launched it may be too late to save it from failure if you have no readily available answers to the many questions that employees will certainly raise . |