Example sentences of "getting away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many pilots give up at 1000 feet when there is still a fair chance of finding something and getting away safely . |
| 2 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 3 | Mike Loosley , general secretary of the Inner London Teachers ' Association - the area union branch — said yesterday : ‘ There 's no getting away from the fact that a child sent home on a particular day as a result of our action will be suffering . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 7 | Ms Boxer 's philosophy is that china should be flexible , ‘ getting away from the 50-piece matching bridal set ’ . |
| 8 | My mother is holding my hand to stop me getting away across the foyer . |
| 9 | We do know what Jack 's views were of the Christian and sexual morality : ‘ There is no getting away from it : the Christian rule is ‘ Either marriage , with complete faithfulness to your partner , or else total abstinence . ’ |
| 10 | Getting away with an investment |
| 11 | Where are these men when , as you say , there are men literally getting away with murder ? |
| 12 | Men have been getting away with murder for years . |
| 13 | Anyway , it was a lawyer named Michael Lipman who engineered David getting away from Tony DeFries . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He thinks he 's getting away ! ’ |
| 15 | You need n't think you 're getting away with a thing . |
| 16 | There is , however , no getting away from it . |
| 17 | Capture the winner and you and a companion could be getting away from it all in style . |
| 18 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 19 | The competitive Morris was being unduly hard on himself , though there was no getting away from the fact that a missed kick by him to touch in the final second against Wasps at Sudbury had spelt defeat . |
| 20 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 21 | The two areas where there appeared to most difficulty in getting away were Leicestershire and Speyside . |
| 22 | The interest in local on-farm training was due no doubt to the difficulty that many found in getting away from their farms for a whole day . |
| 23 | With the amount of work that was to be dealt with during the coming months his chances of getting away from the hospital much before eight or nine any evening were very slight . |
| 24 | They looked — and there 's no getting away from this — infinitely bored . |
| 25 | ‘ Getting away with it ’ , of course , means something only if the bats are adopting some kind of Tit for Tat strategy . |
| 26 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 27 | So far they list the advantages of the group as — getting away together , mutual support , time to reflect , being straight with each other , mutual prayer . |
| 28 | Other cottagers the teacher from Glasgow visited gave him a proof of their kindness ; they presented him with a large basin of milk : he took a drink of it , and would have left the remainder , but they signalled to him to drink it all , and the old man stood opposite the door to prevent his getting away till he was obliged , in answer to Gaelic gesticulations , to drink all the milk that was in the basin . |
| 29 | Seven out of 10 families visit a local beauty spot or attraction at least once a month , according to the research by Gallop , with three out of 10 people ‘ getting away from it all ’ as often as once a week . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |