Example sentences of "rescued from [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 2 | In 1853 , through the good offices of W. E. Gladstone and other Peelites in the ministry of G. H. Gordon , fourth Earl of Aberdeen , he was rescued from penury by an appointment as commissioner of income tax , retiring through ill health some time before his death . |
| 3 | Walmington-On-Sea 's arthritic Jerry-bashers were an unlikely hit , rescued from doooom by top-quality acting ( Lowe , Le Mesurier , Laurie , Pertwee , Frank Williams as the vicar ) and the same sense of Little England that bogged Last Of The Summer Wine down like treacle . |
| 4 | Unlikely as that seems now , it must be remembered that in the early 1970s the private market was in a very bad condition and many developer builders were only rescued from bankruptcy by ‘ package deals ’ under which the DOE gave local authorities special loan sanctions in order to buy in whole estates of unsold private dwellings . |
| 5 | In the early 1950s the Japanese motor industry consisted of a handful of clapped-out truck producers , rescued from bankruptcy by the Korean war . |
| 6 | Accordingly they do not have to be rescued from death by a Saviour ; nor from Hell , for they are not judged at death to Hell or Heaven , but sent to ‘ the halls of Mandos ’ , from which they may in time return . |
| 7 | A HISTORIC Wirral landmark , rescued from dereliction by a local company , is to be officially opened by Baroness Chalker . |
| 8 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |