Things escalate and the two end up spending the night together.

So, I mean, you can really see how this thing has escalated.

He could not allow things to escalate to that point in this situation.

Things quickly escalated and a riot soon broke out, for which the police were sent.

Short of a willingness to have things escalate a long way there was nothing else he could do without losing face.

"I just regret that the whole thing escalated the way it did," he said.

As things escalate, some people go the next step and become looters.

Things escalate quickly and the two move in together and begin trying to have a child.

She had gone on thinking that until 1985, when things had suddenly escalated.