Example sentences of "he [vb past] to get away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the Tans were running towards him , guns being waved menacingly in case he tried to get away . |
| 2 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 3 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 4 | Eventually he managed to get away to the continent , and when he was restored to the throne nine years later , the story of the King 's narrow escape seized the public imagination . |
| 5 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 6 | The papers paid attention to the detail of the knives and sawn-off shot guns he used to threaten and wound his victims , the hood he used to disguise his appearance , his ‘ lair ’ and other related aspects of how he managed to get away with his exploits . |
| 7 | But three days later when he managed to get away without anyone suspecting his real purpose in skimming down south , and Jezrael lay weakly fretting until he got back , Ember could only whisper , ‘ The Company must have got him . |
| 8 | He managed to get away but was then attacked again by both Diaz and Walker , said John Evans , prosecuting . |
| 9 | All he knew was that he had to get away from Weatherbury . |
| 10 | In mitigation Ronald Coia said Mr Siddle had been at his son 's home but decided he had to get away from the festivities . |
| 11 | By the time Charlie and Tommy climbed through the ropes , Tommy had made it clear to his friend that he hoped to get away with three minutes ' shadow-boxing . |
| 12 | When , infrequently , he wanted to write in ‘ some simple metre ’ , he did so ; but when more often he wanted to get away from standard metres , he left them behind altogether , no ghost of them lurking behind his arras . |
| 13 | He wanted to get away to think clearly . |
| 14 | He wanted to get away from the imagination , away from the vague glamour of medieval things , from reverence for tradition , from mysticism , enthusiasm and gloire ; away from all private visionary insights and down to the plain , measurable , publicly verifiable facts ; and this desire was central to his whole mission as a philosopher and reformer . |
| 15 | He wanted to get away somewhere and think in peace , but experience had taught him that it would have achieved nothing because he was incapable of sustained logical thought . |