Example sentences of "[adv] to escape " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 2 | Over 12 rounds the fleet feet and mind of Leonard will , I suspect , no longer be quick enough to escape . |
| 3 | Opponents lucky enough to escape Malawi to live in exile have sometimes been hunted down and assassinated or abducted by Malawian agents in Zambia or Zimbabwe . |
| 4 | But even this overestimates the degree of homogeneity : some Nigerians were rich enough to escape being ‘ black ’ ; some whites were always too poor ever to be ‘ white ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I was assertive enough to escape , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 7 | Our ship was not fast enough to escape , and the pirates caught us . |
| 8 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 9 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 10 | Those trapped in the crush at Hillsborough who were fortunate enough to escape without injury have no claim in respect of the distress they suffered in what must have been a truly terrifying experience . |
| 11 | One crop that seems to have flourished in the late eighteenth-century Weald was hops ; the rapid expansion of the Georgian population produced an urgent demand for more beer , not only to escape the worst features of contemporary living but as a very basic foodstuff for the poor . |
| 12 | The guild provided working-class women with an opportunity not only to escape domestic confines and meet informally in local branches , but to engage with social and political issues far removed from traditional religious and philanthropic pursuits . |
| 13 | Bejewelled , she sat through dinner-parties , often drowsy before the soup course was through , longing only to escape into sleep . |
| 14 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 15 | He would have been glad to talk , if only to escape the profitless treadmill of his thoughts — impressions rather than thoughts , random images which presented themselves again and again to his mind ! |
| 16 | Rich band together to escape home tax |
| 17 | Rich band together to escape home tax |
| 18 | Rich band together to escape home tax |
| 19 | IN fact planning any route that you 've made up yourself across wild land is fun , unless you 're doing so to escape from someone who is trying to kill you or lock you up . |
| 20 | 1064 so to escape the prima facie claim to immunity which this class of documents ordinarily attracts . |
| 21 | As the hot sun set beyond the glittering turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean , they would move inside to escape the mosquitoes and other creatures of the night . |
| 22 | Imagining the scene , poor Cindy hustled out to some waiting car with one of Cashman 's beefy paws grasping her arm like a manacle , Matthew tried to repress the thought that it might have been exactly to escape such strong-arm tactics that the beautiful Cindy had vanished , Matthew said , ‘ Why do you think she might have come here ? ’ |
| 23 | She had gone away to escape Lowell , but the cottage was part of both of them and it was demanding her presence . |
| 24 | Many of the day 's activities took place indoors to escape the heavy rain . |
| 25 | The real reason that I jumped the pond last week was not to escape the E-word , though that would have been cause enough . |
| 26 | Not to escape ! ’ |
| 27 | Pound was not to escape lightly , however , and although he did not stand trial he was judged insane and spent the next eleven years in confinement . |
| 28 | The union therefore purchased Eastcote , some seven miles from Northampton and remote from any prohibited area , for £pound2500 and housed and fed many of the remainder , very largely at its own expense ; there was no wire and there were no guards , the men being put on their honour not to escape . |
| 29 | ‘ Hawkins , ’ he went on in his usual voice , ‘ will you promise not to escape ? ’ |
| 30 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |