Example sentences of "have been spared [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds as though your pony has been spared these problems , but I do doubt you will see the black colour again . |
| 2 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 3 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 4 | Had Ken not been beset by peculiarly worrying tours as England manager/coach , that small family might have been spared such early grief . |
| 5 | We would have been spared this ! ’ |
| 6 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 7 | In those days of waiting , she had been spared any dread of Robert 's approaching her . |
| 8 | So far , too , we 've been spared any of the gorier stuff they do here — and some of this stuff you just would n't believe . |
| 9 | The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life . |