Example sentences of "[verb] they [modal v] get away " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mid-seventies , porn magazine publishers , notably the arriviste David Sullivan , found they could get away with far more explicit pictures of women than before . |
| 2 | Children are very quick to spot this and will take advantage of the situation — and once they know they can get away with anything , you will lose their respect . |
| 3 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 4 | ‘ Comedians should n't feel so bloody important , should n't think they can get away with just standing there . |
| 5 | I do n't think they can get away with it with little girls but they get away with it with little boys . |
| 6 | Then again , it is always possible they tokenised the ban a ) because they felt they could get away with it ; b ) because the stars involved are too big to lose ( especially the photogenic Krabbe ) from the firmament of German sport ; c ) because if it could all be made to look like a mistake , world athletics might look that much cleaner ; d ) because they feared a backlash from the disenfranchised trio , in the form of wholesale revelations about the extent of drug use in athletics , both in Germany and all over the world ; and e ) arising perhaps out of D , they do n't feel like visiting a heavy punishment on their own girls , when there are many others the world over who are equally deserving of banishment . |
| 7 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 8 | The reasons that Charlie Francis , Ben Johnson , Angella Taylor and the rest took drugs are that the rewards were great and that they thought they could get away with it . |
| 9 | Mind you , if the tourist board thought they could get away with it , they 'd probably claim he spent an afternoon at the local petrol station , buying some anti-smear windscreen wash and a fan belt , before moving on to a gift shop to purchase a handmade stuffed velvet Loch Ness monster and having an appreciative sniff at the perfumed candle display . |
| 10 | Nearly a third said they would be unfaithful if they thought they could get away with it . |
| 11 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |
| 12 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 13 | Daily facing threats ( and worse ) from people who think they can get away with anything , just because they are physically stronger than you , is a miserable way to live . |
| 14 | ‘ This sort of thing is happening more and more because the criminals think they can get away with it . |
| 15 | It seems that some designers of upright cookers think they can get away with dowdy styling and primitive features . |
| 16 | They think they can get away with it because the residents are new to this country and do n't know their rights . ’ |
| 17 | The police say some drivers still think they can get away with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I am very upset that the council think they can get away with sending out a liability order before magistrates have even considered the case , ’ said Mr Jones , a part-time council security man for over five years . |
| 19 | ‘ The real problem to be tackled is inadequate powers for the police and the public being messed about by the court system , as well as an escalation of the number of people who think they can get away with crime , ’ said Mr Marwick . |
| 20 | The point is you do n't do these children any service by letting them getting away with it , cos they think they can get away with it . |
| 21 | oh you should n't let them , er , and the , the thing is somebody else argues on their behalf then they think they can get away with it more |
| 22 | And closing them piecemeal , thinking they can get away with one at a time . |
| 23 | There must be a deterrent to stop these people thinking they can get away with it . |