adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an escaped prisoner
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Soldiers arrived, looking for escaped prisoners.
escaped unhurt
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The driver escaped unhurt from the accident.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
narrowly
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His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.
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With Emma he had played with fire and narrowly escaped burning.
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Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.
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A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded.
■ NOUN
convict
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They say perhaps it was an escaped convict who got into the house while Joe was out.
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We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other.
death
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She was a former civil servant and escaped death only by telling her interrogators that she was a peasant.
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His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.
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Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.
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One taxi driver, whose cab was damaged by the Cavendish Square blast, escaped death by 30 seconds.
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In 1966, Arthur Thompson, sen, escaped death in a bomb attack.
injury
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The 17 passengers and two crew escaped injury .
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Aircraft extensively damaged but pilot and three passengers escaped injury .
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A19 crash: Two drivers escaped injury when their vehicles collided near Thirsk.
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Shocked driver Shaun Robinson crashed into a fence, writing off his Capri, but escaped injury .
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School pupils escaped injury but 70 homes were damaged in the blast.
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A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded.
prisoner
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The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner .
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But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger, an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder.
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The escaped prisoner saw us and screamed as he turned to run.
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They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information.
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That morning Sir Henry and Barrymore argued about Selden, the escaped prisoner .
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He is hiding from some one, too, but he is not an escaped prisoner .
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We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Police are on the lookout for three escaped prisoners.
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Sherwood, an escaped convict, hunted down his ex-girlfriend and killed her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Mr Wolski was among the group of keepers who first saw the escaped golden eagle.