1.   She owes her life to an alert farmer, who spotted her car in a ditch and called the emergency services.

2.   The victim said he owed his life to the stranger who helped him.

3.   Yet he owes his life to this man who, in saving him, has sacrificed his hands to frostbite.

4.   He probably owes his life to her prompt action.

5.   This is just one of hundreds of hedgehogs who owe their lives to the Vale Wildlife Rescue Centre in Evesham.

6.   It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped.

7.   One of the guards was badly injured, and says he owes his life to her prompt action.

8.   Ms Hurst knows the boy who owes his life to her kindness simply by his first name, Berend, because of the rules of anonymity governing marrow donations.

9.   Staff at Gloucester Gaol say the prisoner probably owes his life to his cell mate.

10.   Almost immediately after getting out of the hospital he told an acquaintance that he owed his life to Veskrnova.