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Simple sentences
The old man narrowly escaped being run over by a car.
The boy narrowly escaped drowning.
I narrowly escaped being run over by a car.
He narrowly escaped death.
He narrowly escaped being run over.
He narrowly escaped being killed.
The soldiers narrowly escaped death.
Tom narrowly escaped death.
Tom narrowly escaped being run over.
Tom narrowly escaped being killed.
I narrowly escaped being hit by a car.
He narrowly escaped the disaster.
Tom narrowly escaped.
Tom narrowly escaped being hit.
Movie subtitles
A moment ago, we narrowly averted an explosion which would have destroyed several decks of this ship.
You should not see everything so narrowly.
Our photographer, Ricky Williams, was there, and narrowly escaped serious injury.
Roylott promptly seized the man, and in a fit of anger beat the poor fellow to death, narrowly escaped a capital sentence, but suffered a long term of imprisonment, and returned to this country a morose and disappointed man.
For years I've tried to capture him. and I've come close, so very close. but each time he's narrowly evaded my grasp.
She, herself, narrowly escaped. the blood-stained hands of General Galliffet.
I have just narrowly avoided having a buggering.
UCLA narrowly defeated Washington 19-17.
Contestant Dosukoi narrowly turns the tables and wins!
Three days later he narrowly escaped a fire in his garage. Burned to the ground.
I narrowly escaped with my life, sir.
So very narrowly did he have it investigated there was no single hide nor - shame to relate it, but it seemed no shame to him - was there one ox or one cow left out and not put down in record.
It's also very difficult to talk to Nachtwey about the insane situations he has narrowly escaped.
Harper narrowly escapes with his life - the end.
A moment ago, we narrowly averted an explosion which would've destroyed several decks of this ship.
And to see that he's in such good form following his exciting race a fortnight ago at the Nurburgring, where Ferrari's top driver, Erich Stahler, narrowly beat him.
Granger has just crossed the Yaqui River, narrowly avoiding being eaten alive by piranha.
But each time, he's narrowly evaded my grasp.
And on a local note, tragedy was narrowly averted moments ago when a sobbing woman and her two hysterical children weretalked down from a ledge on the Sears Tower.
A tragedy was narrowly averted today when a man returning home from a bowling alley where his wife just bowled a perfect game raced into a burning building saved a family of 10 and the family dog, Winky.
For narrowly averting a meltdown. and proving without question. that nuclear power is completely safe.
Three days later he narrowly escaped a fire in his garage, burned down.
Neville Bartos has been in hiding since. Chopper shot and narrowly missed killing him for the second time.
And look at the way it's playing out - starting with a single victim, then a handful in a narrowly targeted area.
At any rate, we narrowly missed a major war with significant carnage.
I narrowly missed having a huge accident with a truck I even stopped the truck.
And then, after awakening in our own world, we understand deeply and treasure every day. We look narrowly at our life trying with all our being to understand whether the might-have-beens are starting to come true.
I'm not too narrowly specialized.
As men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
I narrowly escaped death.
You swerve, narrowly avoiding The Scary Door.
It's pretty narrowly drawn.
Why are you here? Are you trying to throw away the life that you so narrowly managed to keep?
But in stories where there has been no prior cursing, nudity, killing or death, such as in a family film, the unlikeable character will narrowly escape his encounter, and be referenced to get later in the story having learn valuable lessons.
But some years earlier, he had narrowly survived death from a different cause.
News and current affairs
We remain narrowly focussed on whether an initiative will be immediately good or bad for us.
Djindjic himself narrowly escaped a highway assassination attempt only last month.
Moreover, Europeans do not narrowly equate national security with military spending.
As in the Ellwanger case, restrictions on free expression should be defined narrowly.
Nim suffered various other vicissitudes - and narrowly escaped being infected with hepatitis as part of a medical experiment - until he was eventually released to an animal sanctuary, where he died in 2000.
In 2008, such a catastrophic scenario was narrowly avoided, owing to policy intervention, including the coordination effort under the so-called Vienna Initiative (in which the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, among others, was involved).
The ICG report was narrowly conceived and intended to focus on a single issue, namely the evidence for an Al-Qaeda presence in Indonesia.
To what extent should political leaders see their role narrowly, in terms of promoting the interests of their citizens, and to what extent should they be concerned with the welfare of people everywhere?
From a narrowly British perspective, this might seem a shrewd and reasonable posture for defending British interests.
Today's politicians focus narrowly on how high a carbon tax should be to stop people from using fossil fuels.
One journalist, Hector Ramirez, died of a heart attack while fleeing from the mob; others narrowly escaped lynching.
In that view of the world, America does not stand alone against all others, issuing fiats and focusing narrowly on corporate profits.
The third-ranked organization was Interplast, which is more narrowly focused on correcting deformities like cleft palate.
The WHO studies revealed that schizophrenia defined narrowly - using a particular group of unusual symptoms - occurs with similar frequency throughout the world.
The current spying scandal is the product of a rudderless US foreign policy focused on narrowly drawn tactical objectives that exist outside the conceptual funnel of a comprehensive vision.
But the EU's demand that Yanukovych pardon Tymoshenko, who narrowly lost the 2010 presidential election, may prove harder to satisfy.
There is no sign of a crisis narrowly averted.
EU leaders focus narrowly on limiting short-term financial and political costs, rather than thinking strategically about broader longer-term consequences.
BUDAPEST - This summer, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) narrowly escaped being banned by the country's constitutional court.
Christian Democratic parties first emerged in Belgium and Germany toward the end of the nineteenth century as narrowly focused Catholic interest groups.
If Germany no longer Europeanizes its more narrowly defined national interests, but pursues them as others do, the result will be a re-nationalization within the EU.
The match was played on March 30, with Pakistan losing narrowly.
Instead of defining our research objectives narrowly, we must open our minds to completely different and more exciting discoveries that may be lurking at the periphery of our field of view.