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The phrase "allow him to escape" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in contexts where you are discussing giving permission or not preventing someone from escaping a situation.
Example: "The guards were ordered to allow him to escape, believing it was part of a larger plan."
Alternatives: "let him flee" or "permit his escape."
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Did he learn some great state secret that would allow him to escape?
If he can't escape his anger, the money will allow him to escape the Lower East Side.
Being severely wounded, he turned off and made for the forest, but we did not allow him to escape, but followed him up and killed him.
He set up the philanthropies in Bermuda, in large part because that would allow him to escape United States disclosure requirements.
When he promised that he would leave the family alone if Julia would allow him to escape, she let down her guard.
Getting out in front of the issue would also allow him to escape the current legislative debate over fine print of the Dream Act.
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Fortunately, a sympathetic officer allowed him to escape.
Helping expose SS Dr Carl Værnet and the Allied connivance that allowed him to escape justice.
Acting, which he discovered at Aberdeen University, allowed him to escape himself.
Being a jack-of-all-trades allowed him to escape teaching, for the most part.
With spectacular lunges, they allowed him to escape two bases-loaded, one-out jams.
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