Example sentences of "to escape from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Females often try to escape from the alpha male 's vigilance , and will go up to the beta male and solicit copulation . |
| 2 | ‘ Doctor , ’ Blake interrupted the stranger , who was still trying to escape from the rope . |
| 3 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 4 | The plan meets the garrulous approval of the exiled monarch Wladislas , who calls himself ‘ a middle-class professional man ’ and who is relieved to escape from the rivalry of priests and nobles and the expense of entertaining courtiers of extravagant tastes who ‘ love dressing up in uniforms , putting on swords and attending state balls ’ and whose appetites are such that ‘ a bullock roasted whole and a couple of pigs go no distance at a supper table in Lystria ’ . |
| 5 | When apartheid finally disappears , we want the South Africa that emerges to escape from the ignorance , envy , deprivation and fear . |
| 6 | ‘ Second , ’ the Doctor continued , ‘ we do n't have to use the TARDIS to escape from the maze . |
| 7 | Bobby Hunt , owing to Minton 's advice , managed to escape from the army after only a matter of months . |
| 8 | The solar wind originates in the atmosphere of the Sun , and consists of a tenuous gas that has acquired sufficiently high outward speed to escape from the Sun . |
| 9 | To escape from the Moon 's gravitational field , a sample must be accelerated to a velocity above 2.4 kilometres per second . |
| 10 | However , if the signer is mistaken without being misled , the only way to escape from the contract will be to plead non est factum . |
| 11 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 12 | It fell ill , unknown to the family , and as it was mid-winter it crawled under a neighbour 's balcony to escape from the cold , where it expired . |
| 13 | Mary was a fast runner , but she would n't have been able to escape from the man if he had n't tripped . |
| 14 | He exists in a series of time-capsules , deeply aware of personal responsibilities , of demands made on his time , of kindnesses he wishes to offer , but nonetheless often unable to escape from the maelstrom he has created around himself . |
| 15 | It sounds like you 'd like to escape from the limelight . |
| 16 | Someone resolved to escape from the rainboy alliance of layabouts , conmen and weird minorities who have given Labour such a bad name . ’ |
| 17 | Driven on by the desire to escape from the hardship of his peasant origins , Pierre Nizan pushed himself ever forward in a process of continual self advancement . |
| 18 | The court said , moreover , that " in connection with " covered using an article to escape from the scene of a crime . |
| 19 | Having made a hole , you can then draw off water to leave a gap of 2.5″ ( 7cm ) between the surface of the water and the ice to allow toxic gases to escape from the water . |
| 20 | She said her colleague , PC Mark Whitehouse , 25 , had reversed the car in an attempt to escape from the gunman , but he had crashed into a fence . |
| 21 | He painted Jeanne many times , but was often glad to escape from the apartment and from Madame Hébuterne 's endless criticism of him . |
| 22 | This will occur if the viscosity of the magma is low enough for crystals to escape from the boundary layer on the convective timescale rather than remaining to contribute to the density evolution of the boundary layer . |
| 23 | And the work that France has done to escape from the tyranny of oil has already begun to pay handsomely . |
| 24 | When she said , ‘ What about bed , now ? ’ they were more than glad to escape from the kitchen where the Very Important Councillor Evans might appear any minute . |
| 25 | Subtract this nonsense padding , though , and there is a good — if slim — book struggling to escape from The Heart of the World . |
| 26 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 27 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
| 28 | Further , as we show below , the general theory needs modification to allow for the ability of some firms to escape from the average of national industry economics by internationalising their systems of management . |
| 29 | Whatever happens on Thursday , Lowther has a bolthole to escape from the electioneering . |
| 30 | No African country has managed to escape from the pattern of its past history , but in the late 1980s certain common characteristics can be seen among the more successful countries , notably Kenya , Cameroun and Botswana . |