Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia stared at her linked fingers and planned to get away as soon as they stopped . |
| 2 | Mark said : ‘ I kicked the front door in and tried to get upstairs , but was beaten back by the smoke . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I took to sleeping in all my clothes in my sleeping bag , and managed to get away with not undressing for ten days . |
| 5 | " The subsequent court case was heard at Lewes when the boat 's owner pleaded guilty , but his accomplice pleaded ignorance and managed to get away without a prison sentence , his excuse being that once he realised what was happening he felt obliged to remain on board as it would have been dangerous to leave the owner alone to handle the boat with a load of passengers . |
| 6 | We were hijacked in Nicaragua and managed to get away from that . |
| 7 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she spat , humiliated beyond endurance , and struggled to get away from him . |
| 8 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 9 | Except , I thought , now some vultures had learned about it , and had got away with some . |
| 10 | He had already tried to talk sense into Jotan , and had got nowhere . |
| 11 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
| 12 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 13 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 14 | He had a few convictions for petty crimes when he was out of work but had got away with fines in the past . |