Example sentences of "rescue [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He largely reshaped this family business , rescuing it from near bankruptcy in the 1860s , extending it into tinplate in Monmouthshire , carrying through several amalgamations , and turning it into a public company in 1902 . |
| 2 | EVERTON 'S season is in such dire straits that only a magician in the mould of Paul Daniels can rescue them from big trouble now . |
| 3 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 4 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Danish international Henrik Larsen has pleaded with Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson to rescue him from Italian Serie B side Pisa . |
| 6 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |