Sentence examples for escape being captured by from inspiring English sources

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To escape being captured by the Russians, Schindler and his wife departed westward in their vehicle, a two-seater Horch, initially with several fleeing German soldiers riding on the running boards.

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The president spoke to the nation via the FaceTime app on his iPhone after he narrowly escaped being captured by mutinous soldiers, who arrived in a helicopter at a seaside hotel where he was vacationing — just after he had departed.

Bellerophon narrowly escaped being captured by the French in 1795, when her squadron was nearly overrun by a powerful French fleet, but the bold actions of the squadron's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, caused the French to retreat.

This was Winston Churchill, who typically made himself the subject of a story, with his famous escape after being captured by the Boers.

Later, when the war came and Bulgaria occupied part of Macedonia under an alliance with Germany, but afterwards changed sides, the Nazis threatened to burn the town down unless the locals handed over some Bulgarians who had escaped after being captured by the Nazis as the Bulgarian forces retreated.

The dead included the chief editor of the Charlie Hebdo weekly, Stephane Charbonnier, nine others at the magazine office and two policemen — one gunned down in the street by the masked attackers as their escape was captured on video broadcast by French television.

De Zante becomes a fugitive, rediscovers his Jewish identity and ends up travelling to Salonica and Constantinople, making love and falling in love along the way, being captured by dastardly traitors, escaping from them, and eventually working with Giuseppie Nasi ("The Damned. The Cursed One. The Devil in person. The Sultan's favourite Jew") to try to establish a Jewish homeland in Cyprus.

De Zante becomes a fugitive, rediscovers his Jewish identity and ends up travelling to Salonica and Constantinople, making love and falling in love along the way, being captured by dastardly traitors, escaping from them, and eventually working with Giuseppie Nasi ("The Damned. The Cursed One. The Devil in person. The Sultan's favourite Jew") to try to establish a Jewish homeland in Cyprus.

Footage of the German lorry driver's escape was captured in a video posted on the internet and by CCTV.

The escape was captured on amateur video.

In reality, though, Chapman's relationship with the Indians seems to have been based on mutual suspicion, as was typical for the time, and he recounted stories of having narrowly escaped being captured or otherwise harmed by them.

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