Individuals of enhanced imaginations warn that the mice may escape and take over the planet.
Max sat the box on the table, and opened it cautiously, as if afraid that the mouse would escape from all of them.
But given another half hour, there would be wall-to-wall troopers here and not even a mouse could escape.
You put me in mind of a wild cat when a mouse escapes it.
A mouse wouldn't have escaped their intense scrutiny.
One would assume that not even a mouse could escape them.
So the mouse escaped, but Guido could not find his cap for some time.
For the moment, the mouse had escaped.
"She forgot about that hole in the duster", and the mouse has escaped.
A mouse might escape the notice of a hunting ban-shee by making itself very small, but only for a time.