Although I was devastated at the time, it was a bit of a close call and a lucky escape, with a 30% morbidity rate and several days before help could have picked me up.

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Mr Jones managed to close the lift's doors and escape, eventually fleeing the building to safety.

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"I hugged him close, so he couldn't escape from the car, " she wrote.

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It is hard for soldiers to escape unless the borders are close.

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Dennis becomes so close with them that when he plots his escape to return to his family, he makes sure his new friends can come with him.

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He's had close calls but he's always had an escape route.

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Maybe we should close some of the loopholes that allowed almost 1, 500 millionaires to escape income tax in 2009.

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And in 2012 the crew of the space station were ordered into escape capsules as a precaution after a piece of debris passed close by.

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