Example sentences of "[pron] had escaped [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 2 | Although I had escaped from Montfaucon , the ice cold day soon curbed my elation . |
| 3 | Outside in the shadowy corridor was the little frog which had escaped from the potion laboratory . |
| 4 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 5 | Her campaign for the leadership was run by Airey Neave , a war hero who had escaped from Colditz and prosecuted Nazi war criminals after the war was over . |
| 6 | Hitler had hold to obtain air supremacy prior to his planned landings and invasion of Britain , but the British fighter pilots — later helped by Polish fighter pilots who had escaped from Poland and had to be trained to handle Spitfires and Hurricane fighter planes — were able to destroy so many German planes that any attempt to invade would have been disastrous . |
| 7 | In 1943 , there were several arrivals from Scandinavia including Wilhelm Flehner , born in Vienna , who had escaped from Norway over into neutral Sweden . |
| 8 | They were helped by one-time Allies of the Australians : long-term Portuguese prisoners who had escaped from custody during the summer and now wandered the island in groups of six or more . |
| 9 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 10 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 11 | Chief amongst them was Roger Mortimer of Wigmore , who had escaped from the Tower while under sentence of death . |
| 12 | Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence . |
| 13 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 14 | In 1932 he edited Escapers All , derived from a series of talks given by men who had escaped from prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 15 | The governor of Istanbul , Hayri Kozakcioglu , said that those killed included Sinan Kukul , a Dev Sol commander who had escaped from Bayram Pasha prison in 1990 . |
| 16 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
| 17 | The experiences of some of the Second World ( communist ) countries , those who had escaped from the grip of global capitalism , particularly the Soviet Union and then China , seemed to lend support to the argument . |
| 18 | They had escaped from Sebastopol and were at large in the Black Sea . |
| 19 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 20 | They had escaped from it again , but not for long . |
| 21 | Herr Klein said he could not confirm that Mengele had returned twice to Germany during his years in South American exile — once for the funeral of his mother — but he knew that he had escaped to Argentina immediately after the war . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Graham , angered by a spell of imprisonment from which he had escaped into the Highlands , set up a conspiracy with two Stewarts , one of them James 's uncle and the other his own domestic chamberlain . |
| 23 | That date was ‘ discovered ’ by early Roman historians , men who also incorporated the well-known Greek legend that the city was founded by Aeneas after he had escaped from Troy . |
| 24 | They were no doubt relieved , as Theo definitely was , that he had escaped from the clutches of ‘ that woman ’ . |
| 25 | There is a story in the Acts of the Apostles which describes how Peter , after he had escaped from prison , went to the house of Mary , the mother of John Mark ( Acts 12:12 ) . |
| 26 | Craig stared into the fire , it had been over a week since he had escaped from the prison , lying in the back of the van , smelling the fresh mouthwatering tang of bread and listening to the clip clop of the horses ’ hooves . |
| 27 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 28 | It might be more accurate to say that he had escaped from him . |
| 29 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 30 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |