Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be rescue by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the ‘ cattle men ’ turned up one day at Costa Rica 's legitimate airport and had to be rescued by Fernandez : in his cattle-man 's briefcase were $5,000 in cash to pay for workers on the strip , a spare cassette from North for Fernandez 's KL-43 encrypting device , and brown manila envelopes from the White House containing photographs of Fernandez with Reagan . |
| 2 | In Cornwall , a flock of 94 sheep had to be rescued by boat near Launceston . |
| 3 | AMERICAN vice president-elect Al Gore and wife Tipper had to be rescued by secret service agents after getting lost on a weekend hike . |
| 4 | SEXY singer Anita Dels had to be rescued by security guards after fans tried to drag her offstage during a packed gig . |
| 5 | The tough-guy actor — filming smash hit movie Patriot Games which is released in Britain to-morrow — had to be rescued by emergency crews after a tough underwater fight scene left him exhausted and close to drowning . |
| 6 | POOL player Stuart Townsley had to be rescued by firemen — after he got his arm stuck down a pocket . |
| 7 | Twenty one pensioners had to be rescued by boat from their sheltered accommodation . |
| 8 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 9 | But in 1985 , Acorn had to be rescued by Olivetti . |
| 10 | Heavily in debt , following the failure of his appeal to the King 's Bench , he had to be rescued by his friends , Western and Samuel Whitbread [ q.v. ] , the latter paying him an annuity of £1,000 . |
| 11 | The year 1890 was that of the Baring crisis , when the partners of Barings , largely through mismanagement of a major transaction in Argentina , found themselves in difficulties from which they had to be rescued by a group of City banks and financial houses organized by the Bank of England . |
| 12 | At Pershore in Worcestershire a JCB driver was stranded after his digger got stuck in deep water.He had to be rescued by firemen . |
| 13 | Pat O'Keefe slipped and fell as the boat was setting off and injured his hand as he plunged six feet over the side of the harbour , and had to be rescued by the crowd of journalists who had gathered to see Jack off . |
| 14 | Hans-Jochen Vogel , a former head of the Social Democratic Party , had to be rescued by police from an angry crowd directly in front of the podium . |
| 15 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 16 | REAL firemen freed Joe Grey , four , after he stuck his head between railings at Scunthorpe , Humberside , because he wanted to be rescued by TV 's Fireman Sam . |