Example sentences of "to get [adv] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We go off , we leave the collection and everything , miss all those divine first nights , just simply to have a holiday , to get away from everything … ’ |
| 2 | She could n't wait to get away from everything that was Fernando 's . |
| 3 | The overwhelming desire of the Chris Pattens and Sarah Hoggs and Michael Heseltines was to get away from what they saw as the incubus of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | But then again , rock'n'roll is basically rhythm and you 're never going to get away from what that 's about … ’ |
| 5 | He wanted very much to walk out onto a pier — those constructions built so that people who have come to the sea to get away from their place of work can , for a moment , almost leave their working life behind , can go to the very edge of their week 's holiday and then dream of going further . |
| 6 | Whether or not the NATO powers are able to subscribe to a formal doctrine of ‘ no first use ’ , there is little doubt that they urgently need to get away from their present highly questionable doctrine of heavy reliance on first use . |
| 7 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you use this as a means to get away from me ? ’ she asked finally . |
| 9 | But , just to make sure you do n't jump to any more ludicrous conclusions , I 'd better make it clear that I do n't ever intend you to get away from me . |
| 10 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 11 | " You 'll find it hard to get away from me here in this house , " he murmured . |
| 12 | Were you really so desperate to get away from me that you 'd risk that ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you were trying to get away from me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You mean you want to get away from me ! ’ she burst out , shaking suddenly , her eyes blazing . |
| 15 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 16 | Jake seemed in the grip of a madness deeper than any Ruth remembered ; all she wanted now , overwhelmingly , was to get away from him . |
| 17 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know how ! ’ she shouted and rose to her feet to get away from him but he twisted there before her , his hands on her shoulders and his brown-black eyes blazing down into hers . |
| 19 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 20 | Bathsheba wanted only to get away from him and his words . |
| 21 | To get away from him , probably . |
| 22 | All she knew was that she had to get away from him before she betrayed herself . |
| 23 | It was impossible to get away from him , though , so in desperation she resorted to other tactics . |
| 24 | Here she was , all alone in the wildly romantic snow-covered Scottish mountains with a man most women would give their eye-teeth simply to be in the same room with , and her only wish was to get away from him . |
| 25 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't dream of telling you anything ! ’ she flared , and as anxiety , love and all manner of emotions flooded her she only knew she had to get away from him . |
| 27 | ‘ No ! ’ she choked out , struggling to get away from him . |
| 28 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she spat , humiliated beyond endurance , and struggled to get away from him . |
| 29 | sometimes a great effort to get away from him ! |
| 30 | ‘ I work with women all day and I go to the pub to get away from them ’ … |