Example sentences of "get away [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him .
2 Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds .
3 Mac got away to a quite blistering start .
4 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 .
5 In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict .
6 The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge .
7 SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead .
8 BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg
9 Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round .
10 In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored .
11 A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman .
12 ‘ Jamie got away with a black eye .
13 Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday .
14 And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries .
15 Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’
16 Police at Ames , Iowa , are looking for a one-legged burglar who stole a three-legged Labrador dog from an electrical contracting business and got away in a stolen pick-up truck .
17 Tyrone Evans had been brought into the court 's car park when he overpowered his guard and got away in a blue Renault .
18 ‘ 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 . ’
19 A GANG of professional thieves who staked out a house in Bentworth last week got away with a £20,000 caravan .
20 They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start .
21 THIEVES have got away with a substantial amount of cash from the main branch of Lloyds Bank in Darlington .
22 I think we should have got away with a small Coke , should n't we ?
23 I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " .
24 The strings here play a melodic line including the major 3rd of E7 ( G£ ) , while the bass gets away with a low G natural ( as it is only a sixteenth note long and not in an exposed position ! ) .
25 You need n't think you 're getting away with a thing .
26 It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist .
27 " Oh , I think he was accustomed to getting away with a great deal .
28 The second , also this weekend , resulted in thieves getting away with a further five thousand pound 's worth of silver jewellery .
29 I shall do my very best for him and , if anything you say is true , getting away to a different atmosphere with other boys will be the answer .
30 Yeah , they getting away for a weekend .
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