Example sentences of "[verb] get away " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ He has got away with less than two years in prison . |
| 2 | Mrs Child , 43 , of Wakefield , said : ‘ Nicola has lost 75 per cent of her sight in the eye and he has got away with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure how he has got away with it . |
| 4 | But you 're right , time has got away from me . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ said Rachaela , ‘ I may need to get away to London for a while , after all . ’ |
| 7 | I listened as the young man tried to get away — telling the wino he did n't have any money . |
| 8 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 9 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 11 | Already the Tans were running towards him , guns being waved menacingly in case he tried to get away . |
| 12 | The Humans were sitting a little way off ; Balor would hear them if they tried to get away . |
| 13 | The fact that I tried to get away from you — presented you with an unaccustomed challenge ? ’ |
| 14 | She stiffened in his arms , tried to get away . |
| 15 | She jack-knifed up , tried to get away . |
| 16 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 17 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 18 | tried to get away |
| 19 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 20 | ‘ Can he do that , and expect to get away with it ? ’ |
| 21 | but did grammar really expect to get away with including the Christmas dinner in their schools meals budget ? |
| 22 | When a scuffle broke out , Saville moved to get away out of the way and fell awkwardly . ’ |
| 23 | You long to get away and enjoy some freedom , but circumstances beyond your control dictate otherwise . |
| 24 | You talk as if you have n't seen each other for months , ca n't stand each other and ca n't wait to get away ’ . |
| 25 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
| 26 | I ca n't wait to get away from the Aged Ps again . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get away from this awful place . ’ |
| 28 | Unlike the creatures pursued by film-makers , which usually ca n't wait to get away from the camera crew , this lot ca n't wait to get close . |
| 29 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 30 | You grew up in the countryside and you could n't wait to get away from it ! |