Example sentences of "[prep] saving [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 2 | There is an overwhelming case for giving the D.O. , the most important unit in the whole machine , more responsibility , and for saving him from dancing attendance on Residents who notoriously dodge responsibility . |
| 3 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 4 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 5 | I have to thank you , Jenny , for saving me from an almost certain accident . |
| 6 | By the end of this scene , however , Terentia expresses fulsome gratitude to Dycarbas for saving her from an uncle who had wanted to steal her inheritance . |
| 7 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 8 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 9 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 10 | Many hon. Members believe that the Secretary of State should immediately instruct the Director General of Fair Trading to review the position urgently and in detail , so that we can discover whether there is still some possibility of saving something from this awful mess . |
| 11 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 12 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 13 | Month by month , the chances of saving anything from the wreckage of Bosnia grow less . |
| 14 | The villagers of Visiga call Safarimoja ‘ The Saviour ’ because they credit his discovery with saving them from hunger . |
| 15 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 16 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 17 | This is one of the main reasons why it is now considered to be such an important protective factor in saving us from diseases of the bowel , like cancer . |
| 18 | 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 . |