Example sentences of "[adv] get away " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 2 | ‘ I only got away by throwing hen feed at the sheep to distract them . ’ |
| 3 | He only got away with money in one of the raids . |
| 4 | ‘ And the second time in Norfolk you took a bullet in the right shoulder and only got away by the skin of your teeth , leaving Kurt Steiner behind . ’ |
| 5 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 6 | As a result the public sees people apparently getting away with serious crimes . |
| 7 | It 's very difficult for police officers who are vi visiting victims of crime every day , to see an offender apparently getting away with it . |
| 8 | Where are these men when , as you say , there are men literally getting away with murder ? |
| 9 | Will the Minister take time in the next week , as a matter of urgency , to meet the Israeli ambassador and tell him about the feeling in the country generally that the Israeli Government are literally getting away with murder ? |
| 10 | He will , however only get away with this once . |
| 11 | Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it |
| 12 | You also grew up watching Grandfather 's clients literally get away with murder . ’ |
| 13 | This is never done to motorists , where a very substantial minority of abusers literally get away with murder , despite the existence of technology which could reduce speeds substantially . |
| 14 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 15 | Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst is bring results — ask John Duncan . |
| 16 | Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst it bring results — ask John Duncan . |
| 17 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 18 | Deep Ecology became fashionable among those affluent enough to Get Away From It All and pursue every kind of mystical belief . |
| 19 | You 're dark enough to get away with it . ’ |
| 20 | Rose did it well ; she was just young enough to get away with it . |
| 21 | And now he longed only to get away . |
| 22 | Bathsheba wanted only to get away from him and his words . |
| 23 | She snapped the locks on the case , lifting it from the table , wanting only to get away from Luke Calder as fast as she could . |
| 24 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
| 25 | And the fact that I soon got away from it . |
| 26 | It all took time and it was past midday before we finally got away . |
| 27 | We just got away , ’ he was repeating loudly to his neighbours when he realised that the noise of conversation had ceased and people were all sitting down . |
| 28 | They just got away with more in 1991–2 than they did in 1992–3 . |
| 29 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 30 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |