Example sentences of "to safety " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having delivered the injured Bulgarian to safety we had then returned to the ascent , hoping to catch our party . |
| 2 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 3 | He waited until his two attackers — each to be paid £1,000 , with £500 expenses — disappeared in the dark before climbing to safety . |
| 4 | No one could think that improvement is not necessary to safety , especially in quarrying , construction , diving or works transport . |
| 5 | As the Conservatives themselves hesitantly took up the theme of citizenship in response to opposition challenge , it was argued that only a more flexible , compassionate style of Toryism could be their route to safety . |
| 6 | Thus the plant can , during the latter part of the night , move its leaves to a position appropriate for sunrise ; predatory animals can prepare themselves for the activity of hunting and hunted animals can escape to safety before it is too late . |
| 7 | The old crow selected the largest one and dragged it to safety , out of the way of a pair of young birds chasing them down . |
| 8 | A blitz baby hungry for love tries to get her hunted German lover away to safety in Canada ; an actor , taunted by his wife for being still soft and weak , replies he 's been ‘ toughened ’ by military service and proves it by strangling her , and a conductor plans to elope with his pianist mistress . |
| 9 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 10 | The road between San Biagio and Montepulciano is the one down which the Montepulcianesi came to welcome Iris Origo and the troupe of refugee children whom she walked to safety across a battlefield in June 1944 , caught between the German army of occupation and the advancing Allies . |
| 11 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 12 | Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs . |
| 13 | As the sharks circled closer , two dolphins appeared at her side and protected her until she reached a buoy and could climb up onto it to safety . |
| 14 | Then wickets tumbled , and sixteen were still needed to avert the follow-on when the eighth went down ; but Old with a bruised wrist , and Snow saw them to safety and the innings made 332 . |
| 15 | Rose had pulled a thigh muscle while fielding but now , batting with a runner , made an unbeaten 43 to steer England to safety . |
| 16 | Boycott and Gooch then batted steadily for three hours before Gooch departed for 83 , after which Gower and Boycott took their team to safety . |
| 17 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 18 | They tell of how the Israelites were caught between the Reed Sea and the pursuing Egyptian army , and how God drove the Egyptians into the sea to drown , while leading his people across to safety . |
| 19 | But , as a risk to safety taken recklessly , the offence deserves a penalty which places it above many intentional offences against property . |
| 20 | ‘ Just along the bank a TV crew were filming , and with all the commotion I was making someone broke away from the crowd , jumped into the river and dragged Mrs Miniver to safety . |
| 21 | Mr Bliss took one with his pick-up hitch modification — a steel collar welded round the hitch hook to spread the download of a trailer ring , saving the need for often-difficult ring replacement and adding to safety . |
| 22 | It jerked against the safety-chain , leaving a narrow gap through which he scrambled to safety . |
| 23 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 24 | He said Alex had already led the girls to safety by the time he arrived to rescue Michael , who had slept through the ordeal . |
| 25 | Trapped miners crawl to safety after 15-hour ordeal |
| 26 | After being trapped by a roof fall at 4.30pm on Monday , the six miners , a pit deputy and a mining engineer crawled to safety through a small hole in the rubble clawed by the hands of their exhausted rescuers . |
| 27 | While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth . |
| 28 | In the 14 previous games under his management , Coventry had drawn eight , five of them goalless , and another point would have edged them closer to safety . |
| 29 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 30 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |