Example sentences of "[pers pn] have escaped from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 2 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 3 | Although I had escaped from Montfaucon , the ice cold day soon curbed my elation . |
| 4 | I 've escaped from many places with this … ’ |
| 5 | On a more mundane level , I have felt delight in contemplating some phenomenon of nature which I have seen and felt with the emotions of a child when I have escaped from the prison house of our habitual thoughts . |
| 6 | As we all dance forward towards the next episode , I realise that for one brief hour we have escaped from the drab monotony of the Oxford English Culture . |
| 7 | I am genuinely sorry , for I am heartily thankful that we have escaped from the small-mindedness of the medieval church and I despise modern astrologers , but I am afraid that the rhetoric about backwaters in the previous paragraph is just empty rhetoric . |
| 8 | They had escaped from Sebastopol and were at large in the Black Sea . |
| 9 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 10 | They had escaped from it again , but not for long . |
| 11 | Those among the contented who own to a social conscience may not fully appreciate that the conditions suffered by the urban underclass can be marginally less unendurable than those they have escaped from ( whether in the American South , Puerto Rico or the shanty towns of the West Indies ) . |
| 12 | More ducks arrived , shouting , ‘ He has escaped from his garden ! |
| 13 | It has escaped from time and place and municipal control . |
| 14 | And now that he 'd escaped from that awful prison , come he would , she knew that as certainly as she knew daylight would follow darkness . |
| 15 | He 'd , he 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 16 | He 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 17 | Er he 'd escaped from Leeds or summat . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They were no doubt relieved , as Theo definitely was , that he had escaped from the clutches of ‘ that woman ’ . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 23 | It might be more accurate to say that he had escaped from him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 26 | In August Turberville returned to England , claiming that he had escaped from prison . |
| 27 | After nine years ' captivity at Theodore 's court he had escaped from Magdala and returned to his homeland . |
| 28 | But it was a mistake to mention actual days , he had escaped from them temporarily , seeing the border as it would be , not the work involved , he was into summer and autumn , not today . |
| 29 | Erm I knew that er he had escaped from prison . |
| 30 | It does n't actually say I I I was just looking , it does n't s seems to go up to September nineteen eighty six but not to say that he had escaped from prison . |