Example sentences of "[conj] 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 | Most of our red deer are feral , having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks . |
| 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 | Jazz shook his head so that the hair fell down over his face like a curtain and sat looking like something that had escaped from the zoo , still heaving from his exertions . |
| 5 | Begun the hatred that swelled the tiny spark of life that had escaped from the meteorite and become the Worm ? |
| 6 | CANCER cells are almost by definition cells that have escaped from the controls that govern the behaviour of the individual cells in a multicellular organism . |
| 7 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |