Example sentences of "get away [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
2 | The partnership came to an end in 1947 when Walter got away to the United States . |
3 | But it was I who got away to the steps up to the morning room , Francis 's sorry steps . |
4 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
5 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
6 | A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman . |
7 | Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’ |
8 | SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead . |
9 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
10 | They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
14 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
15 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
16 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 |
20 | 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 . |
21 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
22 | That was in Norway , and got away from the Nazis |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Eventually he got away from the dogs , + hid under a car , panting loudly . |
25 | I thought if we got away from the boat for a while … ’ |
26 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |
27 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
28 | Southern Princess went down around 0300 hours but we got away in the lifeboats . |
29 | A GANG of professional thieves who staked out a house in Bentworth last week got away with a £20,000 caravan . |
30 | It still contained some of the stolen antiques , but the robbers got away with the rest over £20,000 worth of goods . |