Example sentences of "[be] get away " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need n't think you 're getting away with a thing . |
| 2 | The type of person who goes on this holiday to destinations for example want somewhere unusual perhaps to India , is more likely to be an alocentric person cos they 're getting away from the crowds . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're getting away from the immediate problem . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're getting away . |
| 6 | Yeah , but I mean we 're getting away |
| 7 | They might think they 're getting away with it , a lot of people who , who , I mean being unemployed is n't , you tend , people tend to feel devalued and so if they can think oh , they 've put one over on that , on the er , benefit office , then they 'll go and brag down the pub about it . |
| 8 | You 're to get away , as far as you can . ’ |
| 9 | It was this : the less I eat , the more I am getting away with . |
| 10 | ‘ I am going away , I am getting away , I am out of place here , ’ I answered . |
| 11 | Men have been getting away with murder for years . |
| 12 | For a long time local authorities have been getting away with murder — they 're not keeping maps up-to-date and have low maintenance budgets for rights of way . |
| 13 | The author , investigative journalist David Leigh , has had access to unpublished trial records and secret Whitehall files , and says that ‘ Ministers have been getting away with murder . |
| 14 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 15 | ‘ We are getting away from the labour party for industrial workers , ’ says Walter Momper , the SPD mayor of Berlin and one of the new generation of leaders . |
| 16 | ‘ We are amazed to be prosecuted when currently there are many brokers , other mortgage advertisers , and major building companies who are running ads contrary to the Act which do not mention APR at all , and they are getting away with it . |
| 17 | Dame Margery Fry came to lecture , and began her talk by apologizing ‘ to my hearers when the true criminals of the world are getting away with it so well . ’ |
| 18 | NEIGHBOURS stars Stefan Dennis and Gayle Blakeney , a couple on and off the screen , are getting away from it all in a sleepy English village . |
| 19 | They are getting away with £4 million by breaking into call boxes . |
| 20 | And people are getting away with it . |
| 21 | Gareth broke his leg while he was clearing snow in 1982 and the milk from the herd of Guernseys could not be got away , so Rachel got out the separator and sold cream locally . |
| 22 | Suits '68/'69 — mohair or as near as could be got away with . |
| 23 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 24 | Capture the winner and you and a companion could be getting away from it all in style . |
| 25 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 26 | I do n't care as long as they know them so that somebody else has got some responsibility , she said I just ca n't be getting away with it and and , and erm being irresponsible . |
| 27 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 28 | Subsequently all four men were convicted of smuggling and their defence counsel stated in court in their defence that they were " the dupes and pawns in a high powered enterprise while the real criminals behind the racket were getting away scot free . " |
| 29 | They were getting away from the busyness and bright lights . |
| 30 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |