Example sentences of "to escape from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , the motor trader defendant is not responsible for turning back the mileometer and covers up the reading , the motor trader should be able to escape from liability on the basis that no false description was in fact applied to the goods ( s1(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 2 | The other religious groups were Old Believers ( that is , Schismatics ) trying to escape from persecution in Russia . |
| 3 | These estates have a relatively high turnover of residents , as new workers and their families are posted to Shetland , others return to the south and some move into private housing in the locality , leaving the estate to escape from feelings of social claustrophobia . |
| 4 | He added , ‘ Michael Crawford , gangling , gauche and trying to escape from life through Oriental mysticism , achieves some really hilarious effects with his alternating bouts of unworldly chatter and inexplicable rage . ’ |
| 5 | He talked wildly about shame and guilt , and how he would give part of the money he 'd inherited to his wife and to you , and use the rest to escape from England with the girl he loved . |
| 6 | He was glad to escape from Ottawa to Aix . |
| 7 | In the pursuit of his fortune , he had deliberately travelled many long and distant journeys , always seeking to escape from memories of Beth and their time together . |
| 8 | Luo had served nearly two years of a five-year sentence on charges of trying to help Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming to escape from China after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square . |
| 9 | Two men who helped George Blake , a Soviet spy , to escape from prison in 1966 could become the first British authors in recent history to have royalties seized by the courts . |
| 10 | Liable to escape from collections of ornamental waterfowl. 23 — 27 in. ( 58 — 69 cm . ) . |
| 11 | They were not going to escape from hell in the twentieth century craft . |
| 12 | They had shot and killed Chris Gueffroy , the last person to die trying to escape from East to West Germany , as he attempted to cross the border to West Berlin on Feb. 6 , 1989 . |
| 13 | Many young people who carry on the habit on their own , after first experimenting with friends , are trying to escape from unhappiness at home , perhaps because their parents are quarrelling . |
| 14 | Yet the very need for academic subjects to escape from allegations of ‘ practical utility ’ may yet lead to irresistible pressure for change in the period of economic malaise which we currently confront . |
| 15 | Most dictionaries would describe it as a ‘ desire or tendency to escape from reality into fantasy ’ , and ‘ reality ’ is certainly a key word in this definition . |