Example sentences of "get [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 2 | And the fact that I soon got away from it . |
| 3 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 4 | Even at the height of NEP prosperity in 1926 , considerable resistance to central patterns and instructions was to linger on the further one got away from Moscow down through all the provincial levels , but in 1922 strong fears of such resistance provoked a siege psychology among those party officials located nearest to the grass roots . |
| 5 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 6 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 7 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 8 | We did our jobs , we fell into bed exhausted , and in our off-duty moments we got away from the camp as much as possible . |
| 9 | For instance , against India my emotions got away from me . |
| 10 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 11 | MODEL Lisa Butcher got away from it all yesterday with a mystery man . |
| 12 | A cheerful and smiling Diana got away from Prince Charles last night to welcome guests ar state president Roh Tae-Woo . |
| 13 | The Greece that got away from the Turks was a country of peasants , local clan chieftains and Orthodox priests , with only a sliver of a mercantile and professional upper class . |
| 14 | He was finally taken prisoner but got away from Sicily by pleading the status of a suppliant ; later he returned and was killed . |
| 15 | His gargantuan repast seemed to have put The Fat Controller in a better mood and avuncularity seeped back into his tones the further we got away from the pizzeria . |
| 16 | And you ca n't fight us — Gray got away from five of you . |
| 17 | But it seemed to her that the women in the East End never got away from it : everlasting wet linen in the kitchen , smells of flat-irons and scorching , burns on their knuckles and puffy skin up to their elbows . |
| 18 | You never quite got away from guilt ; the priests were right . |
| 19 | And so Lucy said , ‘ Well … she got away from all this . ’ |
| 20 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else . |
| 23 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 24 | I thought if we got away from the boat for a while … ’ |
| 25 | David McRandall let a seven shot , 15 ends lead , slip away and was beaten 24–23 by Patrick Heade ; Clifford Dennison never really got away from Blair Somers who won this one 16–13 , and Glen Thompson 's four lost a hard battle to John Nolan ( 17–16 ) . |
| 26 | He got away from her and looked for Dangerfield . |
| 27 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 28 | It got away from us . ’ |
| 29 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
| 30 | That was in Norway , and got away from the Nazis |