Example sentences of "[adv] to escape from " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I ’ m not going to Thailand just to escape from the group , ’ Kate says , still unable to move away from guilt . |
| 6 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 7 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
| 8 | The only German prisoner ever to escape from Britain , described in the book The One that Got Away , made his first attempt from Fetherstone . |
| 9 | America was conceived in vision as one of the greatest dreams of men ; it was to be the first nation ever to escape from oppression and the freed spirit would bring forth a splendid nation . |
| 10 | It is the very temple of discomfort , and the only charity that the builder can extend to us is to show us , plainly as may be , how soonest to escape from it . |
| 11 | Thus on Amon Hen Frodo puts on the Ring , contrary to Gandalf 's injunction , simply to escape from Boromir , and the narrator ratifies his decision : ‘ There was only one thing to do ’ . |
| 12 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 13 | Many had left Europe precisely to escape from its problems , and the majority of the people supported the position adopted by Woodrow Wilson , the Democrat who was then President . |
| 14 | The adult Nizan was never to escape from it . |