Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] get [adv] with " in BNC.
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1 | I love a piece of orange , I I would n't eat a whole orange but I do like er little pieces of oranges now I might get away with that but if I was to have a whole orange |
2 | I 'll get even with you for this , you see if I do n't " The dealer replied : " Is that a threat ? " |
3 | I 'll get even with her . |
4 | Well somebody sooner or later 's gon na catch up , I ca n't understand really why these people think oh I 'll get away with it . |
5 | Excellent I 'll get together with that |
6 | ‘ Do you honestly think I could get away with it ? ’ |
7 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
8 | And he 's quite rare because I think I could get away with imposing my ideas on him . |
9 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
10 | There was a sense of immaturity in our society , an admiration of the crook , the kind of cock-eyed notion that if someone could get away with it he was a Robin Hood type who could somehow feather his own nest and at the same time feather theirs . |
11 | And you carried on and I shot you dead I 'd get away with that . |
12 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
13 | I will get together with Richard before the audit , plan it accordingly . |
14 | I just want to go with the least amount of gear I can get away with , be able to troubleshoot it myself and keep it simple . |
15 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
16 | ‘ I do n't have a car so I take as little as I can get away with , ’ she says . |
17 | No with these is extra , is , there 's on the main board so I think I can get away with just one |
18 | People like me I can get away with it , I get |
19 | When I travelled across to the other side of the island , I could see the other islands , and I said to myself , ‘ Perhaps I can get there with a boat . |
20 | Suffice to say that nobody else can make the old songs new again so often and so well , nobody can get away with such extensive improvisation , and nobody else has Morrison 's vocal attack or his spirit . |
21 | ‘ You may be right , and you may get away with it . |
22 | You may get away with light use of a seam roller on a flat-backed vinyl , but do n't overdo it ! |
23 | I shall tell the police , but you may get away with them . |
24 | At home you may get away with a subtle plan to mislead and manipulate trusting relatives , but people at work or in your community wo n't be so easy going . |
25 | At home you may get away with a subtle plan to mislead and manipulate trusting relatives , but people at work or in your community wo n't be so easy going . |
26 | While in the summer you might get away with a pair of trail boots , I would always want to wear something more substantial for traditional British hill-walking . |
27 | we 've got a bit of a problem , right , the dummy variable that we 've included erm er you might , you might get away with this amount . |
28 | Oh in that case this year I would n't mention it if I was you , you might get away with it . |
29 | so there 's a lot of scope , by , in other words , if you take a multiple , if you did , if you know four closes and you only use two , you might get away with it |
30 | But you 'll get nowhere with them I grant you . |