Example sentences of "get away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say , I 'd get away at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 2 | I could not get away at once because of all the clearing up there was to do , but at last the files on that unhappy case could be put away , and I was planning a fortnight 's cruise in my ancient Yorkshire coble Joanna , now moored on the Crouch . |
| 3 | ‘ He ca n't get away at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | Can you get away at five ? |
| 5 | Did you try and get away at all or |
| 6 | At least two holidays a year , of a fortnight each should be planned if possible , when you can get away on your own , or with friends . |
| 7 | You see if we can get away on holiday earlier this year because the violin exam 's in June or in July we 'll be back . |
| 8 | But there were only soft , cold leaves remaining , and they got sucked in beneath her plate , to rest there clammily until she could get away to the bathroom . |
| 9 | And with a short night 's sleep behind him and a miserable hour ahead of him before he could get away to the hospital , the day would be spoiled before it started . |
| 10 | They were fed and sheltered here in Assisi and in other monasteries and church buildings until they could get away to South America . |
| 11 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 12 | In the mild south , gardeners can get away with plunging them in their containers buried in peat in the garden , but up here they 'll need to be kept safe from hard frost in a cold frame . |
| 13 | He is content for everyone else to have their say first , though his everyday associates and friends respect his views too much to let him get away with that too often . |
| 14 | ( You can get away with one vertical cramp per arch if you roughly joint in a horizontal bar between the blocks . |
| 15 | All my classmates and tutors said I 'd never get away with it . |
| 16 | However , insiders reckon that the councils will get away with it if Hammersmith loses . |
| 17 | You ca n't get away with that any more . ’ |
| 18 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 19 | They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it . |
| 20 | The point we sought to make , Mr Smith , was that it was ludicrous to assume — as Ford has — that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car , and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again . |
| 21 | Good luck to him if he can get away with it . ’ |
| 22 | Emboldened by what she saw her friend get away with , Diana felt able to loosen the shackles a little . |
| 23 | But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder . |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't let them get away with that , ’ said Mrs Mott eyeing Harry Dodson 's looped festoons of smilax , positively growing before her eyes . |
| 25 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 26 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 27 | America could then get away with a mild and relatively short recession , provided the domestic financial system did not spring any surprises . |
| 28 | Do n't let him get away with it ! |
| 29 | You ca n't let him get away with it ! |
| 30 | It was rather nice being ill — he could get away with not clearing up his dishes . |