Example sentences of "to save [pron] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She also wanted to save them from slaughter for the sum of two hundred pounds .
2 Elephants in northern Cameroon are being tracked by satellite in an effort to save them from attacks by farmers when they damage crops .
3 IT probably wo n't be enough to save them from relegation to Division II , but Dundee HSFP reproduced some of last season 's promotion-winning style in regaining much lost pride at Mayfield on Saturday .
4 Recently , and at vast expense , Loch Ken has been revitalised and restocked , because it had become fishless ; and there is evidence that many other lochs , surrounded by conifer plantations , will need similar treatment to save them from ruin in the foreseeable future .
5 And then , ‘ When she first cam , I meant to save her from misery like mine . ’
6 ANOTHER former employee of Mrs Winnie Mandela has said he lied in court to save her from implication in the murder of Stompie Moeketsi .
7 A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear .
8 As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? "
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