Example sentences of "save him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Short had been saving him for the Ascot race .
2 It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace .
3 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 .
4 DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap .
5 He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy .
6 LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor .
7 IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness .
8 She wanted to die , saving him from death .
9 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
10 Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got .
11 ‘ I 'm sure he could have saved him with all the modern equipment we have .
12 Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence .
13 Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up .
14 He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling .
15 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 .
16 I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty .
17 But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination .
18 He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life .
19 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 .
20 Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit .
21 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 .
22 Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism .
23 Only God 's intervention has saved him from death by stoning .
24 A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights .
25 At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved .
26 He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial .
27 He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections , and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that .
28 Save him for the Old Bailey and whichever penal dustbin they locked dope peddlers in .
29 Tools with extra long handles save him from having to bend over too far , which might undermine his balance .
30 What you must do is help him forget ; plunge him in business as your father would have done ; save him from ruining the rest of his life hunting for vengeance . ’
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