Perhaps, in that electric moment, he realized that no instinct could save him now.
His instincts saved him again; he dodged to the right, narrowly avoiding a beam of controlled force.
She hadn't been consciously aware of it, but in the crisis her instinct went to a rope and saved her.
He had come close to dying, so close that in the end only instinct had saved him.
Firefighters, whose instinct to save lives pushes them toward a disaster, must be trained to respond to commands to hold back.
He forgot even his motorcycle, and only the instinct of the trained rider saved him from disaster during the next few blocks.
Once again his instincts had saved him.
His instinct and years of training saved him.
Eve spun around, and her instinct to protect saved her life.
The elephant's natural instinct to flee the sea saved the life of a young girl who was upon his back.