Example sentences of "have escaped from " in BNC.

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1 The definition of capital murder — which carries the death penalty — varies from state to state : in Alabama , a capital murder is one that occurs during the course of a robbery , or where the victim is kidnapped or raped ; or , where the perpetrator is on parole or has escaped from custody ; or where the crime is particularly cruel .
2 Wexford was reminded of a butterfly , fresh and lusty , that has escaped from a dried chrysalis .
3 We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot .
4 Céline has escaped from the Marquis de Pierre-Noire and fled to Edinburgh .
5 This Messer Girolamo has escaped from Constantinople , with terrible news about Trebizond . ’
6 More ducks arrived , shouting , ‘ He has escaped from his garden !
7 Clarence has escaped from the Tower , and is crossing the Channel with his brother Gloucester ( later to become Richard III ) .
8 ‘ A dangerous criminal has escaped from the prison , sir , ’ he told us .
9 ‘ Eric has escaped from the hospital .
10 It has escaped from time and place and municipal control .
11 The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning .
12 A inmate has escaped from the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire .
13 A group of students has escaped from the classroom for the day to take a crash course in circus skills .
14 Without giving too much away , low-lifer Sammy Dodds ( Matthew Costello ) , an essentially good guy driven to crime , awaits Terry Flowers ( Iain Stuart Robertson ) a cool psychopath with a penchant for 7-UP , who has escaped from Barlinnie .
15 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 .
16 At ten o'clock I put the radio on and heard about the man who 'd escaped from Rampton .
17 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 .
18 He 'd , he 'd escaped from one of the prisons .
19 He 'd escaped from one of the prisons .
20 Er he 'd escaped from Leeds or summat .
21 All climbing up the stairs in one mad rush trying to get out of the hell-pit of the London Underground tunnels , after having escaped from the claustrophobic strangulating suffocating hold of the London Underground Tubes , marginally cleaner but less picturesque than those of New York .
22 In the case of Health , there is the special relief at having escaped from those incessant wrangles over money with income-orientated professions , whose members are taken by the general public for altruistic servants of humanity , if not for angelic comforters .
23 And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one .
24 Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump .
25 Most of our red deer are feral , having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks .
26 Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident .
27 Having escaped from custody three times , he was more determined than ever to use all and every means to return to Germany .
28 Both these birds may have escaped from captivity .
29 He thought this one must have escaped from the National Theatre down the road .
30 Carrie and Nick would have escaped from the house if they could but it was bitterly cold and had begun to snow heavily .
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