I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cry escapes sb/sb’s lips
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A cry escaped her lips as he tightened his grip on her wrist.
an escape route (= a way of leaving a building or place in an emergency such as a fire )
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Check that your escape route is clear.
an escaped prisoner
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Soldiers arrived, looking for escaped prisoners.
escape death (= avoid being killed )
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He fell while climbing in the mountains, and only narrowly escaped death.
escape from (a) prison
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Blake escaped from a Missouri prison last year.
escape from jail
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The killer has escaped from jail.
escape from reality
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The programmes help viewers escape from reality.
escape hatch (= a hole in an aircraft etc through which you can escape )
escape justice
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Acts of terrorism must not escape justice .
escape sb’s notice (= not be noticed by someone )
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It had not escaped his notice that Phil seemed interested in Jean.
escape the consequences (= avoid them )
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I knew I’d made a mistake and that I couldn’t escape the consequences.
escape unharmed
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The girl managed to escape unharmed .
escape velocity
escape/avoid detection
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By flying low, the plane avoided detection by enemy radar.
escape/avoid injury
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Two workmen narrowly escaped injury when a wall collapsed.
escape/avoid liability
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The defendant escaped liability by proving that he had taken all possible measures to avoid the accident.
escape/avoid prosecution
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He was lucky to escape prosecution.
escape/avoid punishment
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The thieves managed to escape punishment.
escaped unhurt
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The driver escaped unhurt from the accident.
escape/emerge unscathed
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He escaped unscathed from the accident.
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The government was relatively unscathed by the scandal.
fire escape
flee/escape across the border
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Over 100,000 civilians fled across the border.
flee/escape into exile
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Hundreds of people fled into exile or were jailed.
had a narrow escape
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A woman had a narrow escape yesterday when her car left the road.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
narrowly
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For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile, stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped .
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During the war he narrowly escaped death dozens of times.
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In 1949 he narrowly escaped the first of three attempts on his life.
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Looking to her heart, she sees the chasm left by a death she narrowly escaped .
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Harassed by the nomad Scythians, whom he could not catch, he narrowly escaped the fate of Cyrus.
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Knowingly or not, others have narrowly escaped Pottker.
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He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12, when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
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In both cases, the journalists narrowly escaped injury but the houses from which they had been transmitting were devastated.
■ NOUN
attempt
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A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters.
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Despite his bulk, he jumped several fences in a last-ditch attempt to escape .
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None of the men made any attempt to escape when they struggled, subdued and shaken, on to the bank.
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Victor had apparently made no attempt to escape .
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The theory of the global system based on transnational practices is an attempt to escape from the limitations of state-centrism.
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Mould talked about some of his previous attempts to escape .
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I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors; sleep is impossible.
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These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle.
attention
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Phillips was first to go after an off-the-ball incident that escaped the attention of most people in the ground.
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Of these, the best known is the Everglade kite, which escaped attention even longer than the crocodile.
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A single vote, wasted votes and used votes Nothing escapes attention so easily as the obvious.
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But the counterproductive nature of this policy gesture can not escape attention .
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Developments in primary care Primary care did not escape the attention of the Thatcher government either.
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By waiting until the last minute, donors can sometimes escape attention in the hectic time before an election.
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The Government's actions regarding observance of the law do not escape attention by ordinary people.
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Life has slowed down so drastically for him that Blue is now able to see things that have previously escaped his attention .
chance
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His hopes of a chance to escape soared.
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If he had some sinister purpose, then why would he offer me a chance to escape ?
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Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance.
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I just couldn't keep away from her when I got the chance to escape from Rocamar the other day.
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The chance to escape from the daily drudgery in the pits must have been more than attractive.
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Now might be her best chance to escape while Peter was still away.
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Sikes and Nancy gave him no chance to escape and Oliver had no breath to call out for help.
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Anyway, more importantly, this was my last chance to escape .
injury
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Both occupants escaped serious injury but aircraft is a write-off.
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Both riders walked away and escaped serious injury .
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Taylor was left badly bruised down his right side-from leg to shoulder-but escaped without permanent injuries .
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Some workers, their faces blackened by the acrid smoke, fled in panic, escaping injury .
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Goreng had escaped injury entirely, being just outside the radius of harm.
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Despite the violence, the prisoner escaped injury and was sent to the state penitentiary.
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It shattered the window but the glass held and he escaped injury .
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In both cases, the journalists narrowly escaped injury but the houses from which they had been transmitting were devastated.
life
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Lucky you were to escape with your lives , let alone your horse.
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I imagined that these characters were popular because they reflected the frustration of those who couldn't escape their lives either.
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It was impossible to escape an impression of lives deeply disturbed and unhappy.
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The injured woman was lucky to escape with her life .
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The Great Idea had become a major disaster, she had been lucky to escape with her life .
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I've been escaping all my life .
notice
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The fact that closing date for entries was 28 January seems to have escaped its notice .
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This discourtesy did not escape the notice of the press.
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If this has escaped your notice then read on!
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It may have escaped your notice , but the biggest of seasonal shifts happened last night.
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Anything positioned beneath the tilt of her chin seemed to escape her notice .
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The farm was so cut off from the world, even big stories like that one escaped our notice .
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It hasn't escaped my notice that you've gone from five-star hotels to virtual slums.
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Has it escaped their notice that last Thursday was the first really warm and sunny day of the year?
prison
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John's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times.
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By learning and practicing the basics, Dan had escaped the prison of his handicap for ever.
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Colin Wood escaped from prison in 1994 and spent three years on the run before he was tracked down in Alabama.
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Calderon had escaped from state prison .
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He escaped a prison sentence after magistrates heard he was seeking help for his drink problem.
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Light leaped out through the door, escaped from prison at 186, 000 miles per second.
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Each of them had attempted to escape from another prison at least once.
prisoner
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A prisoner had escaped from Auschwitz and ten prisoners were required to die in the starvation bunker - block 13.
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He was the only prisoner ever to successfully escape .
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The prisoners who escaped invariably turned up at their homes, where they were given accommodation, food and clothing.
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Despite the violence, the prisoner escaped injury and was sent to the state penitentiary.
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It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day.
way
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He found the panel that would open the way to escape .
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Now Jack sees a way to escape from it all by faking his death in a house fire.
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The only way to escape this tyranny is to abandon the house.
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He later claimed that he simply refused to mount it and in that way escaped death.
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There was no way to escape .
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People have found ways to escape ill-fitting jobs, start training programs, or enter graduate school.
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There is no altogether painless way of escaping from a pay-as-you-go scheme, particularly if you want people to make substitute provision.
■ VERB
allow
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This meant that substantial building-up would be needed, to allow the water to escape .
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He was seeking a skill to allow him to escape an impoverished background.
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If there is heavy rain, the spillways must be enlarged to allow the floodwater to escape before the dam bursts.
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Or, perhaps, nothing allowed him to escape .
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As well as dilating, the capillaries become more permeable and allow fluid to escape into the tissues, which produces swelling.
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He's allowed her to escape .
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Avoid moisture based products which swell the hair and allow the pigment to escape .
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Such leaks were important because they could allow radiation to escape .
help
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Instead she takes part in his piracy and gains meaning for life, before she helps him escape .
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April fled in the night to her sweetheart, Roland, begging him to help her escape the now enraged witch.
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Luckily Joseph was able to grease a few palms, thus helping his brother to escape .
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A promising young lawyer assigned to defend a murder suspect finds her client so appealing, she helps him escape .
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I wanted people, a friend, somebody to talk to ... somebody who could help me escape from my island.
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She was pleased to see that the 460 uses unleaded fuel, helping her bid to escape the city smoke.
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Oxfam is trying to help these families escape from their hand to mouth existence.
manage
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The girl managed to run off but the man repeated the attack and again she managed to escape .
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Prison officials are investigating how he managed to escape from the maximum-security facility.
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Crazy Horse and most of his band managed to escape .
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Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon managed to escape from the car, but suffered horrific burns.
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An investigation into how he managed to escape so easily is now under way.
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He refused and although the base was destroyed, Al-Makesh and Bernard managed to escape .
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I manage to escape without answering.
seek
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Nevertheless, it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary, single-vendor systems.
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Instead, fear of death pursued him as he sought to escape the threats from Jezebel.
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For forty years villagers have streamed into its fetid blocks, seeking to escape rural poverty.
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However the individual parts are mutually repellent and while attached to the dirt also seek to escape their neighbours.
try
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However, the fun-lover is motivated by a fear of pain, which he or she tries to escape .
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The child is trying to escape and avoid the very exercises you are doing to reverse the underlying difficulty!
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In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it.
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White told how he had repeatedly tried to escape , been twice captured, twice imprisoned, finally condemned to death.
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He pushed his chair back from the table as if trying to escape .
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Or gas before he backed himself into a corner and tried to escape by means of the faro table.
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I tried to escape , so did my uncle.
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Then they set the church on fire and gunned down those who tried to escape .
want
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This, though, does arouse pity for Blanche as she does want to escape , by marrying Mitch.
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In short, they want to escape into and actually experience the period.
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She wants to escape from home, and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while.
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Depression wakes us up early and interferes with sleep, but sadness makes us want to escape into sleep.
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If you want to escape you will know where to run to.
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Students prone to violence are what everyone, rich and poor, wants to escape .
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She just wanted to escape back to her cottage, her solitary existence.
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People will become desperate and they will want to escape .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
escape your attention
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He said that very little escapes his attention .
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Life has slowed down so drastically for him that Blue is now able to see things that have previously escaped his attention .
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Nor should the similarities in the broader dimensions of the problem of youth employment escape our attention .
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Richie had the feeling that something had escaped his attention .
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There he might hope to hide in the depths, to escape our attentions .
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Virtually no country escaped its attentions .
make good your escape
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Angel One and his followers had made good their escape.
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At all events the pursuit came to a sudden halt and Henry was able to make good his escape in peace.
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By the time they had sorted out the confusion and given chase, the woman had made good her escape.
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He opened the door and prepared to make good his escape.
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Instead, she made good her escape, bolting the galley door so that he could not follow her.
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Only the timely arrival of a window-cleaner enabled Branson to make good his escape.
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Salim makes good his escape on the steamer - bound, we take it, for his bride.
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The next morning it was found that General Sedgwick had made good his escape and removed his bridges....
narrow escape
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But he has also seen the loss of life and the narrow escapes.
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He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.
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It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed.
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The driver launches forward for a narrow escape.
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The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hidden devices and daring.
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They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A cloud of poisonous gas escaped from the chemical plant.
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Although I know that the novel was published in the nineteenth century, the actual date escapes me.
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Criminals generally know their neighborhood well, so it's not difficult for them to escape into the back streets.
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Four prisoners escaped through a hole in the fence.
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Grant had escaped through a bathroom window while in police custody.
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Guards have been ordered to shoot anyone trying to escape .
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Hare escaped death by testifying against his partner, who was later hanged.
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He escaped from prison in June, but was rearrested by police a month later.
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He ducked down an alley to escape from the mob that was chasing him.
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He was one of nine men who escaped from prison in July.
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I could see no way of escaping the boredom of the small-town social scene.
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I know I've heard this song before but its name escapes me.
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It looks as if they've escaped. They're probably over the border by now.
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Josie managed to escape from her attacker and call the police.
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Many young offenders escape punishment completely.
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Only four people managed to escape before the roof collapsed.
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People are willing to pay $10 for a movie ticket to escape their problems.
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Police surrounded the building, but somehow the gunman managed to escape .
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So far the terrorists have managed to escape the police.
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Some people were able to escape over the border into Tanzania.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And suddenly she couldn't escape quickly enough.
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But it means retailers' profit margins escape the tax net.
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Gerhard Berger escaped unhurt from a high-speed collision with Ferrari team-mate Jean Alesi.
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He has escaped lightly from other brushes with the law, and from politically incorrect condemnations of homosexuality, feminism and contraception.
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Knowingly or not, others have narrowly escaped Pottker.
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Lots of computer-generated technical dazzle in this fantasy about jungle animals escaping a supernatural board game and terrorizing a New Hampshire town.
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There was no possible way to escape .
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Weldon Flaharty, said in a recent interview that he inexplicably escaped administrative punishment, which could have shortened his career.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The journey represents the great escape from destruction; it is begun in time and ended beyond it.
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Such a fellow is Colin Fletcher, long-distance trekker, amateur naturalist and past master of great escapes .
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Boro manager Lennie Lawrence has a reputation for engineering great escapes and on this form he may achieve yet another.
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Meanwhile Hereford's great escape from the relegation zone is going to plan - four games now without defeat.
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Clutching the sheet, letting a great hollow groan escape me, I staggered back across the room.
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With air-driven models, especially those that reach the tank bottom, the contact time is greater and little escapes .
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Given the evidence against them, it must rank as one of the great escapes .
lucky
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Rangers, having just survived a lucky escape , launched their first attack.
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They agreed they were quite lucky to escape the fire and set off for a foreign country.
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My passenger had had a lucky escape that night; he had used his wits well and survived another fight.
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She could never get over her lucky escapes .
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One girl had a lucky escape when a fence post narrowly missed her head.
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They had a really lucky escape .
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He should not allow himself to wallow in it, however: hindsight may well suggest he has had a lucky escape .
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A neighbour had a lucky escape , for she had left the couple's house just minutes before.
miraculous
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Nottingham also dreamt of achieving a miraculous escape from relegation.
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My family had been lucky, we had had a charmed life, we had made miraculous escapes .
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They might have had a miraculous escape .
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In this extremity he sought no miraculous escape , no sudden revelation of a known lake.
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The police have described it as a miraculous escape .
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It was here that the aircraft was involved with a miraculous escape after an in-flight fire raged through the aircraft.
narrow
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They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape .
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He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.
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His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.
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But he has also seen the loss of life and the narrow escapes .
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape .
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The driver launches forward for a narrow escape .
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The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes , precautions, hidden devices and daring.
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It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed.
possible
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For many people the only possible escape from their permanent state of poverty and malnourishment is to emigrate.
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And in the instant of time available to him, he thought of the only place of possible escape from this nightmare.
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So it is possible that avian death-feigning is tuned in to this one crucial moment of possible escape .
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Together with the Vatican, United States operatives made possible the escape from justice of some of the worst mass-killers.
■ NOUN
attempt
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He's made 2 escape attempts and had a reputation for persistent violence.
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The home as an escape attempt Saunders, however, challenges this argument.
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Oxford United continue their escape attempt .
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Moral careers, escape attempts and front and back regions.
clause
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He would act alone, but he would take care to provide himself with an escape clause .
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Fourth, the escape clauses it provides are likely to be far from fully effective.
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Here was the escape clause the board was looking for.
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The film strives for a surface kind of cynicism, only to invoke the Love Conquers All escape clause in the end.
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The metal employers' federation says half its members may resort to the escape clause .
hatch
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Taking hold of a strong branch, he finally cleared the escape hatch with his legs and dropped to the ground.
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Unlike the cecropia and promethea moths, however, these two do not have built-in escape hatches for the emerging adults.
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Some experts suggested that the escape hatch might have been damaged.
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There was also an escape hatch in the inner hard cocoon.
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Although normally kept shut, there is an escape hatch for the after cabin in each of the cockpit seats.
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The two sides were now on a collision course: Khrushchev could not allow West Berlin to remain as an escape hatch .
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Another escape hatch that Olson slams shut upon us is the device of distinguishing between Pound-the-man and Pound-the-poet.
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Even more important, birth control has a crucial escape hatch .
plan
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Reports of escape plans were denigrated by MI5.
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They leave, the two cars follow the same escape plan they used at Danvers.
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We kept in close contact and re-tested our escape plans .
prison
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That is presumably the product of what we now know about the Brixton prison escape .
route
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Mr Letts tried to block their escape route and was mown down.
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The governor posted his troops all along the escape routes .
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The last side street which could have provided any escape route for the marchers was by now several hundred yards behind them.
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After fleeing Illinois for Utah, the Mormons had always been obsessed with finding escape routes to the sea.
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But unless escape routes have been allowed, that response will be thwarted.
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I glanced back over my shoulder, at the same time looking for an escape route .
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Appreciation that he had provided her with the escape route she had so badly sought?
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We had planned our escape routes beforehand.
velocity
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As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase.
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Some of the gases from the explosion and fireball may reach escape velocity .
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This critical speed is called the escape velocity .
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A significant fraction of their water content can emerge from the explosion at a speed below the escape velocity of Mercury.
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As the radius of the star is reduced the escape velocity increases until eventually it reaches the velocity of light.
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In fact, it is traveling well above escape velocity .
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Jupiter is a very massive planet, and its escape velocity is correspondingly high.
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Even modest-sized impactors can blast atmospheric gases off of Mars at speeds above escape velocity .
■ VERB
block
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He realized his mistake too late and when he turned back to the entrance Sabrina was already there, blocking his escape .
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Harsh fortresses of prickly pears and shard grass and dead branches block off all escape .
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Mr Letts tried to block their escape route and was mown down.
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They are now both in front of her on the road, blocking any escape .
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Swarms of wolf riders are often deployed ahead of the army's line of march to scout and block any route of escape .
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Behind them a huge force of Orcs moved to block their escape .
make
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Humanity is already making plans for its escape .
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But Solomon sat tight in his rain barrel, and after the cossacks had left empty-handed, he made his escape .
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I did make my escape from Roundhay - by a route taken by many of my contemporaries: higher education.
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As they made their escape one produced a handgun and warned the student not to follow them.
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I decided to make my escape as soon as I could.
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Salim makes good his escape on the steamer - bound, we take it, for his bride.
offer
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The process approach offers a convenient escape from difficult value questions.
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The words seemed to offer hope of escape from the agony on which he was skewered.
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Elsie offered him an escape and, more importantly, it was a legitimate escape.
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It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
prevent
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Once formed, the joints were internally sealed with pitch to prevent the escape of any obnoxious gases or liquids.
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Horror stories include kids chained to looms to prevent escape .
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Hold them tightly all the way home to prevent escape .
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This prevents any escape across the open ground and many of the rabbits will become entangled in the net.
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Each prisoner had a nylon noose around his neck to prevent escape .
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Greenhouse gases trap heat and prevent its escape from the atmosphere into space.
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It was decided to stop the car around junction 16 to minimise the danger to the public and prevent any escapes .
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Nevertheless, he added, it had failed to take the necessary steps to prevent an escape of rainbow trout.
seek
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Even when she was too tired to read she sought escape in romance-cubes she spent all her wages on at the Madreidetic shop.
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The small fish broke into smaller shoals, desperately seeking escape .
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Another week and the boats and banks of the Wannsee would be crowded with Berliners seeking a few hours of escape .
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In this extremity he sought no miraculous escape , no sudden revelation of a known lake.
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She threw Carla from her and looked around her wild-eyed, like an animal seeking an escape route.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
block sb's way/path/exit/escape etc
escape your attention
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He said that very little escapes his attention .
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Life has slowed down so drastically for him that Blue is now able to see things that have previously escaped his attention .
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Nor should the similarities in the broader dimensions of the problem of youth employment escape our attention .
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Richie had the feeling that something had escaped his attention .
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There he might hope to hide in the depths, to escape our attentions .
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Virtually no country escaped its attentions .
make good your escape
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Angel One and his followers had made good their escape.
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At all events the pursuit came to a sudden halt and Henry was able to make good his escape in peace.
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By the time they had sorted out the confusion and given chase, the woman had made good her escape.
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He opened the door and prepared to make good his escape.
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Instead, she made good her escape, bolting the galley door so that he could not follow her.
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Only the timely arrival of a window-cleaner enabled Branson to make good his escape.
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Salim makes good his escape on the steamer - bound, we take it, for his bride.
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The next morning it was found that General Sedgwick had made good his escape and removed his bridges....
narrow escape
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But he has also seen the loss of life and the narrow escapes.
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He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.
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He was probably even now thanking his lucky stars for a narrow escape.
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His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.
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It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed.
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The driver launches forward for a narrow escape.
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The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hidden devices and daring.
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They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Tunnel to Tanto Grande" the story of a daring escape staged by political prisoners in Peru.
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Books are a good form of escape .
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It was a narrow escape - a couple of minutes later the whole place went up in flames.
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Methane blocks the escape of heat from the atmosphere.
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The fireman said they'd had a very lucky escape .
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The gang had planned their escape thoroughly.
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There is no escape from the difficulties of growing up.
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They had planned their escape very carefully.
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Until his escape from the camps, he was beaten nearly everyday by his captors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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McClellan considered Malvern Hill not so much a victory as another escape from disaster.
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Most of the money was spent within a month of the escape .
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Salim makes good his escape on the steamer - bound, we take it, for his bride.
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Some parts of the Bill are relevant to an attempted escape .
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There is no escape from the physical nor is there any escape from the mind.
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This gives the bird only about 10 seconds to make its escape from a wide bodied Boeing 747.
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Visitors who come with only escape on their minds usually leave with a Chan Chich bird list.