When he left the room, the man then the woman made attempts to escape during which the woman screamed.

Vidal would probably not interpret that as either an attack or an attempt to escape something coming up behind him.

A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters.

They'd been carrying on this way for over a year, his father complaining but making no attempt to escape.

With that he slipped out of the chain and made one last feeble attempt to escape.

"Surely you do not really wish to involve me," he said, making one last attempt to escape.

She caught them all this time because they did not make any strong attempts to escape.

After they get caught, they make an attempt to escape from a Mexican prison.

Ray and Claude make several attempts to escape the prison.

Mulder attempts to escape, but is quickly arrested by several soldiers.