Example sentences of "saved him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her existence certainly saved him from making decisions : ‘ I 've got to consult my wife ’ always let him off the hook and annoyed the independent Jane . |
| 2 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 3 | Luckily his jacket had caught on it and saved him from falling . |
| 4 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 5 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 6 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 7 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 8 | On another occasion he reflected that only hard work saved him from ‘ that melancholic staring into the abyss ’ . |
| 9 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 10 | His back had been pierced by a metal spike and only the fact that he remained conscious saved him from being dragged wholly into the moving machinery . |
| 11 | Even then , it was the desertion of allies , the failure of his Italian bankers , and the capture of ransomable kings which saved him from financial disaster . |
| 12 | More than once only his connections by marriage with John Hampden [ q.v. ] saved him from very serious trouble . |
| 13 | Only experience saved him from despairing at this rag-bag of memories . |
| 14 | He saved him from a mob . |
| 15 | Mahmud Pasa confesses that such is the case , explaining that Abdulkerim saved him from an addiction to wine which , he implies , would have seriously impaired his chances not only for a successful career but for salvation as well . |
| 16 | We went to school together , I saved him from a beating and he rescued me from a hanging , twice ; once in Ipswich and then again at Montfaucon , that great forest of gibbets which stands near the Porte St Denis in Paris . |
| 17 | Horrified security staff rushed to Boris 's aid and saved him from what would have been a hairy trip home . |
| 18 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 19 | Someone saved him from a blade he had not seen , and he killed the man who wielded it and began to fight his way back the way he had come , towards Siward , still calling orders . |
| 20 | Only the fact that he rolled on to his side saved him from being brained . |
| 21 | Sure enough , St Augustine saved him from shipwreck on the way back , he agreed to the translation , and ordered Ælfstan , abbot of St Augustine 's , to come to him at Whitsuntide . |
| 22 | A pensioner 's training in the SAS saved him from serious injury when two men attacked him with a knife . |
| 23 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 24 | Sir Fulke 's honesty in admitting he walked on the frozen moat saved him from suspicion . |