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narrow escape
1. Five years of cat and mouse, five years of narrow escapes, five years of
2. As he walked the corridors of the ship in the aftermath of their narrow escape from
3. The owl flew on, unaware of its narrow escape with death; a few metres lower and its chicks would have died from hunger in a cold nest
4. They hadn’t heard any crashing sounds since shortly after their narrow escape, but going back wasn’t even a thought
5. After its narrow escape the Court remained contrite during the remaining years of the 1930s, throughout the years of World War II, and for a time after the war ended in 1945
6. Having finally, laboriously, gained the highest ground that overlooked the lowlands, Moshe reined in for a view of the Egyptian catastrophe and their narrow escape
7. upon the path of his frenzied, very narrow escape
8. reined in for a view of the Egyptian catastrophe and their narrow escape
9. He’d had a narrow escape
10. thief realised that he had just had a narrow escape
11. Sally began to laugh as he poured two glasses of red wine, Footscray weren’t having a very good season so far this year, they were on their second bottle when Sally asked how he could help, Murray explained what he wanted telling Sally it was a payback, if there was one thing Sally understood it was the time honoured Italian principle of payback, that it meant getting rid of the tainted money and might even help to close the Post Office case, what a bonus that would be, his nephews would be grateful and after their narrow escape might now show the proper respect, it was a no lose situation for Sally, after hearing what Murray intended to do with the goods Sally laughingly asked Murray if he had any Italian blood in his veins, Sally asked for eighteen grand, Murray offered eleven, they settled on thirteen, Sally was pleasantly surprised when Murray paid him up front, showing a respect that was worth more to Sally than the money, delivery was promised for the following afternoon, they shook hands and Murray left
12. Whenever the opportunity arose, Max evaluated the facts concerning the loss of ships and planes, their narrow escape from sinking, the cause of the gas bubbles, and the possibility of the gas harvesting being the source of the problem
13. He couldn't tell what went on behind him, but loud calls and commands, gunshots, and explosions made it obvious that they'd had an extremely narrow escape
14. Lucas and Nick started telling us Army stories about their narrow escapes with death and zombies
15. Maybe one too many narrow escapes had put these doubts into her
16. the narrow way, the narrow escape that is about to happen
17. She smiled as she recalled sitting at the beach bar in Jost van Dyke and what they viewed as their narrow escape from that island
18. In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies
19. Never mind what John said, or what a very narrow escape the little bonnet had from utter ruin
20. It is fitting that people who rush with such ardour to the work of putting questions to men yet gasping from a narrow escape should have, I wouldn't say a tincture of technical information, but enough knowledge of the subject to direct the trend of their inquiry
21. narrow escape of being crushed against the rocky roof, and after that I took the
22. who has suffered more, or had more narrow escapes than I have? Is it not just
23. Several monks had had narrow escapes, which only heightened the talk of miracles, and others had bad cuts and bruises from flying chips of stone
24. We have had a narrow escape
25. Over and over, he told the story of his many narrow escapes, of the bypaths and country lanes he had taken on his return to Tara, the unfrequented roads, the old trails, the bridle paths
26. "We've had a narrow escape ; that shade
27. 'We have had a narrow escape!'
28. evidently had a very narrow escape, and the hunt was hotter on our tracks
29. In 2000, an Australian lifeguard had a narrow escape when he drank water from a bottle containing the near-transparent tentacles of one specimen
30. She feared for William; by no means convinced by all that he could relate of his own horsemanship in various countries, of the scrambling parties in which he had been engaged, the rough horses and mules he had ridden, or his many narrow escapes from dreadful falls, that he was at all equal to the management of a high-fed hunter in an English fox-chase; nor till he returned safe and well, without accident or discredit, could she be reconciled to the risk, or feel any of that obligation to Mr
31. On one or two occasions he had narrow escapes from death—
32. "I had two narrow escapes in one of my walks with a gun in search of game
33. These are narrow escapes and strange experiences, and adventures full of excitement both on land and sea
34. ” And thus it came about that I went back to my own office feeling as if I had suffered a severe defeat, instead of jubilant over my narrow escape
35. ” But I saw he was thinking only of himself and his narrow escape from having to give up his big house and all the rest of it; that, soft-hearted and generous though he was, to those poor chaps and their wives and children he wasn’t giving a thought