Example sentences of "save [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd left well alone and not tried to see the child you 'd 'ave saved yerself a lot of heartache . |
| 2 | We could have saved ourselves so much time and grief . |
| 3 | ‘ What a deal of nuisance we could all have saved ourselves , ’ remarked Carnelian 's voice . |
| 4 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
| 5 | At this stage we are only roughing-out our interview schedule , but the more attention we can give to detail now the more we are likely to be saving ourselves trouble later on . |
| 6 | If our " helping hands " were in fact the embrace of a leper , " what hope have we of saving ourselves ? " |
| 7 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 8 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 9 | Former French Open champion Walton goes into the third round of the £618,000 championship in second place , two strokes behind Swede Mats Lanner , and 36 good holes away from saving himself from the trip that no player wants to make . |
| 10 | Kruger collected 7,582 points at Sheffield , where Brannen decided to withdraw after eight events , saving himself for a multi-events meeting at Stoke this week , where he hopes to battle his way to the top of the rankings . |
| 11 | NIGEL WAS GLAD ON ONE LEVEL TO HAVE SAVED HIMSELF TROUBLE by finishing with Eleanor . |
| 12 | Prime Minister John Major could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had followed that advice over David Mellor , the former Heritage Minister . |
| 13 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 14 | Huy could not guess by what means Reni had saved himself and his family from the debacle that followed Akhenaten 's fall ; but he knew many good men whose ruin had been the price the scribe had paid to be sitting here now , and the thought tempered his sympathy . |
| 15 | Ipuky might have saved himself , but at no one else 's expense . |
| 16 | Er , if only Darwin had opened it , Darwin would have saved himself an , all , load of old trouble . |
| 17 | And signing on and signing off … the goalie who 's saved himself from the dole queue |
| 18 | However , had the hiccup in the company 's meteoric rise to the top of the fine chemicals tree come a little sooner Mr Lines would probably have saved himself around £100,000 the personal cost of founding three academic chairs at the Poly . |
| 19 | So he could have saved himself but he did n't want to . |
| 20 | Becky stood a good chance of saving herself but it 's believed she may have perished trying to help Emma , higher up on bales . |
| 21 | She was saving herself for Elder Seth . |
| 22 | Felicity was Saving Herself for her Wedding Night . |
| 23 | She should have stayed away , had dinner alone with Richard somewhere , saving herself the pleasure and the pain of being near Luke . |
| 24 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 25 | Then she would have saved herself a lot of grief . |
| 26 | buying one extra drink and erm getting a you know cheaper than saving theirselves two and a half quid then . |
| 27 | You could be saving yourself much trouble later on . |
| 28 | Saving yourself for marriage , my Aunt Nellie ! ’ |
| 29 | All this Vestal Virgin talk about ‘ saving yourself up ’ for the right man . |
| 30 | ‘ Are you regretting making love to me , ’ he grated , ‘ or are you only regretting that you made love to me instead of saving yourself for André ? ’ |