Example sentences of "[vb past] be spared the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 2 | Petrograd , still the cultural centre of the whole country , had been spared the cut-back of January 1922 , but due to financial pressures four papers merged into two in order to save costs . |
| 3 | Thank God she had been spared the ordeal of surgery . |
| 4 | By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies . |
| 5 | Happily all four engines had been spared the attention of the Ju88 but I was soon to learn from the flight engineer that the aileron control cable had been severed and he went into the wing root to find the two ends and make some sort of connection . |