Example sentences of "save him from " in BNC.
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1 | It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace . |
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 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
5 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
6 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
7 | She wanted to die , saving him from death . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
18 | Only God 's intervention has saved him from death by stoning . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections , and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that . |
23 | Tools with extra long handles save him from having to bend over too far , which might undermine his balance . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | " Have this one and save him from a fate worse than death . " |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
28 | Now he knew that nobody , not even Buddie , would be able to save him from Rosie 's deadly teeth . |
29 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |
30 | ‘ Marriage can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination . |