Example sentences of "saved [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We have saved money for resources , but we dare n't use it , because there is nothing that is right for us .
2 Direct Line Insurance is a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland plc and has already saved money for hundreds of thousands of policy holders who buy direct .
3 Droitwich was supposed to be a textile centre , but evidently not even the Act of 1534 had saved clothing from total eclipse by salt burning ; the town 's poverty being symptomatic of chronic unemployment which the hazards of the salt trade did little to alleviate .
4 She 'd saved Blazer from slaughter .
5 It was this principle which had saved Virgin from collapse in the wake of the Customs and Excise fine ten years before ; it was the principle , Branson believed , that would now secure the company 's future .
6 The sudden arrival of the Republic , with its liberal and anticlerical atmosphere , probably saved Carlism from extinction ; certainly the cause now began to revive , expanding beyond its stronghold in Navarre into other regions , adopting a militantly anti-republican stance , and eventually developing a formidable paramilitary organization , the Requeté .
7 Gershuny ( 1982 ) reported that these have saved time for working-class households and challenged the widespread contrary belief , instanced by Bowlby ( 1984 ) , that technology has not in fact cut domestic labour .
8 This takes time but you have already saved time by working in stocking stitch and you are creating a work of art , are n't you ?
9 The advantage is that your debtor has either to pay you or not pay you ; if the latter , you have saved time in assessing the situation and can immediately get on with whatever action is necessary .
10 Selecting FILE from the main menu offers you a choice of starting a new design , loading an existing design from the disk , saving the current design on to disk or deleting a previously saved design from the disk .
11 Both sides had saved face with this compromise , but it meant the clear-up would not keep pace with dumping and the work was unlikely to ever be completed .
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