Example sentences of "have got off [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 2 | He 'd got off lightly with the men earlier . |
| 3 | If anything , they may be relieved to have got off so lightly , given that East Germany 's aversion to a local brand of perestroika and glasnost has long been clear . |
| 4 | He was relieved to have got off so lightly . |
| 5 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 6 | Bill Stubbly had got off lightly — so far . |
| 7 | Well I think I think she 's spent all that money what she 's got off already because |
| 8 | Unlike last year , most insurers have got off lightly . |
| 9 | You have got off lightly , even if your face will be swollen and painful for some time . ’ |
| 10 | I think they have got off quite lightly ! |