Example sentences of "saved [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You saved me a trip up to your room to collect you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Going out to America saved me a lot of time — an English surgeon had told me it would be a year before I kicked a ball again but I was back playing within six months . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You could n't have waited half an hour — that 's all the journey from Olbia takes — and saved me the inconvenience of having to hang around for almost an hour ? ’ |
| 4 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 5 | They rescued me from my predicament , and saved me the trouble of rewriting the entire chapter . |
| 6 | Blyth saved me the trouble of suggesting a game of football by doing it himself . |
| 7 | I do n't think the men minded really you know , having these things inserted , it saved them a lot of trouble . |
| 8 | In the event , Chambers saved them the trouble of deciding . |
| 9 | The man had a card that did the work at the desk , saved them the queue , and it did the business at Customs too . |
| 10 | just cos I saved you a green there love . |
| 11 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 12 | It saved him the effort . |
| 13 | But her host saved her the trouble . |
| 14 | It simply saved her the trouble of curbing her own foolish passions . |
| 15 | We only paid interest on what we had borrowed , which saved us a fortune in interest charges . ’ |