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 .
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