Example sentences of "save himself by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 2 | On another occasion he bravely went on to the roof to assess the wind damage to his television aerial but slipped and just managed to save himself by clinging to the guttering — not however , before dislodging a slate which bulleted downward and sliced its way effortlessly into the bonnet of his neighbour 's brand new car to form a kind of dorsal fin . |
| 3 | On 5 April 1329 Isabella and Mortimer appointed as Justice of the Forest south of Trent Sir John Maltravers , who had been one of the gaolers , and probably one of the murderers of Edward II : when Edward III assumed personal authority in the following year , Maltravers saved himself by flight to France . |
| 4 | The principal charges against him related to ship money and his conduct concerning the forests ; he saved himself by flight to the Continent . |
| 5 | After this shockeroo was leaked , Hamilton saved himself by writing his own version which became a best-seller in America and in Britain . |
| 6 | Mr Deacon saved himself by running through the inferno to get to the staircase and outside . |
| 7 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |