Example sentences of "[prep] escape from " in BNC.
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| 1 | After escaping from the lions ' den , kids and their parents can try water rides and giant toboggans . |
| 2 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 3 | Honasan , who had been implicated in several coup attempts against Ramos 's predecessor , Corazon Aquino , had been in hiding since 1988 , after escaping from a prison ship moored in Manila Bay [ see p. 36428 ] . |
| 4 | Laureano Ortega , leader of the extreme left-wing October 1 Anti-Fascist Resistance Group ( GRAPO ) , was rearrested in Santander on Dec. 5 after escaping from Granada prison during 1992 . |
| 5 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 6 | A convicted murderer is on the run tonight after escaping from his escort during a trip to Edinburgh . |
| 7 | The first is a prisoner on the run , after escaping from Edinburgh Sheriff Court this morning . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Mrs thomas 's other grandson James Bellamy is now on the run after escaping from police custody . |
| 9 | Two weeks after escaping from a prison in Buckinghamshire Keith Hanger is believed to have turned to murder . |
| 10 | A group of Jewish refugees has been re-united more than fifty years after escaping from Nazi Germany . |
| 11 | Tyrone Evans , who 's twenty-eight , spent four days on the run after escaping from Sutton magistrates court . |
| 12 | New escape : A 22 year old prisoner was on the run today after escaping from Group 4 guards in Derby while being taken from court to jail . |
| 13 | FIVE prisoners being tried in connection with the Strangeways riot were on the run last night after escaping from a court . |
| 14 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 15 | With all due respect to my fellow countrymen , German prisoners of war have not been noted for escaping from England , not since the First World War . ’ |
| 16 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 17 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 18 | There is no altogether painless way of escaping from a pay-as-you-go scheme , particularly if you want people to make substitute provision . |
| 19 | This may be the only way of escaping from the temptation of continuing perpetual agricultural subsidy in one guise or another . |
| 20 | Education , he believed , should offer a means of escaping from the alienation and poverty that bedevils that area ( Freire 1968 ) . |
| 21 | Compounds such as hexachlorobenzene , trichloroethylene or polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) are increasingly building a reputation for life-threatening toxicity , and a habit of escaping from factories or dump sites to play havoc with the environment . |
| 22 | If he is drunken and disillusioned , owns a taxi or spends most of his time chasing higher academic qualifications with the express view of escaping from the job he is doing ( and all this happens very frequently in practice ) , he will be of considerably less value to the children under his care than a man or woman with humbler qualifications but greater maturity , integrity and interest in children . |
| 23 | But the heady joy of escaping from the routine and demands of one 's family can soon evaporate into anxiety and loneliness . |
| 24 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 25 | Kinnock did much to knock the Labour Party , if not into the 1990s , then at least into something resembling a political organisation capable of escaping from the 1970s . |
| 26 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
| 27 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |
| 28 | Or perhaps he was merely expressing caution about Romania 's chances of escaping from the Soviet orbit . |
| 29 | There are hundreds of ways of escaping from all the different grabs , holds and strangles . |
| 30 | Most of the CEB men , Hacking included , saw as one of the great prizes of nationalisation the possibility of escaping from the voluntarism which had characterised their former relations with the undertakings . |