Example sentences of "get away [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partnership came to an end in 1947 when Walter got away to the United States . |
| 2 | But it was I who got away to the steps up to the morning room , Francis 's sorry steps . |
| 3 | They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden . |
| 4 | Heterosexual feminists argued that we had to be taken seriously as women , and if the media got away with the label of lesbians , then ‘ the women out there ’ would be alienated . |
| 5 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 6 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 7 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 8 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 9 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 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 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
| 15 | That was in Norway , and got away from the Nazis |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Eventually he got away from the dogs , + hid under a car , panting loudly . |
| 18 | I thought if we got away from the boat for a while … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |
| 20 | Southern Princess went down around 0300 hours but we got away in the lifeboats . |
| 21 | It still contained some of the stolen antiques , but the robbers got away with the rest over £20,000 worth of goods . |
| 22 | ‘ And two others got away by the skin of their teeth . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't think I would have got away from the KGB so easily . |
| 25 | So it 's a distance they 've got away from the start . |
| 26 | Other commandos may have got ashore for — as mentioned earlier — some German guns were silenced beyond John Roderick 's objectives , but after landing no other commandos got away in the MLs . |
| 27 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |
| 28 | Organising big gigs like Loch Lomond and Murrayfield would add more worries to the existing day to day running of a band , but Marlene takes it all in her stride and escapes from it by going to Skye where she ‘ gets away from the phones ! ’ |
| 29 | The radio provides a wide variety of voices ( gets away from the overfamiliar teacher 's voice ) and is suitable for more advanced levels . |
| 30 | He was shot getting away with the ransom . ’ |