Example sentences of "to get away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ian Amstad , of Bankers Trust investment bank , said : ‘ Mr Lamont will be lucky to get away without raising rates . |
| 2 | Their toughness and wounds are high enough to enable them to get away without a shield . |
| 3 | But three days later when he managed to get away without anyone suspecting his real purpose in skimming down south , and Jezrael lay weakly fretting until he got back , Ember could only whisper , ‘ The Company must have got him . |
| 4 | " The subsequent court case was heard at Lewes when the boat 's owner pleaded guilty , but his accomplice pleaded ignorance and managed to get away without a prison sentence , his excuse being that once he realised what was happening he felt obliged to remain on board as it would have been dangerous to leave the owner alone to handle the boat with a load of passengers . |
| 5 | You will be able to get away without including any REMarks in simple programs . |
| 6 | Not every horse handles the tight bends of the Musselburgh circuit so well , and Claire Balding was lucky to get away without serious injury after Dusky Duchess lost her back legs and came down . |
| 7 | We might have to , we might be able to get away without having to take the board out , if I if I use the old de- solderer might be able to just hook it out and put the next one in . |
| 8 | Oh no , what I mean is I 'm not gon na be able to get away without people |
| 9 | But good work by Thorneycroft allowed Baldwin to get away on the left and , though Liley kicked a third penalty goal for the Tigers , Northampton 's challenge continues . |
| 10 | Mainly she was bored , but she knew she had n't the strength to get away on her own . |
| 11 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 12 | Their survival value is clear : when severe injuries first happen it may be more important to get away at all costs than to stop and attend to them . |
| 13 | She lost six tail feathers , and was lucky to get away at all . ’ |
| 14 | Quite affluent , the newcomers entertained , although Mr Thompson managed to get away at nights , robbing houses across London . |
| 15 | But times have changed and chefs may not be able to get away with overcharging for simple dishes using relatively inexpensive ingredients for much longer … or perhaps they will . |
| 16 | In this way , Hammer became a victim of its own phenomenal success , always going for the big thrills and unable to get away with offering anything less than what was expected from a ‘ Hammer ’ film . |
| 17 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 18 | No manager , in any half-decent company , is able to get away with claiming that he has made all the improvements it is possible to make . |
| 19 | But he 's not going to get away with it wherever he is . |
| 20 | SIR Ian McKellen ( Letters , March 29 ) must not be allowed to get away with his blanket assertion that equality for homosexuals has been established throughout Europe . |
| 21 | To get away with it at all , the wines must be bone dry , so that there 's no food ( ie sugar ) for any possible remaining bugs . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I gambled today and we were fortunate to get away with it . |
| 23 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 24 | Nowacki , a Polish businessman whose interests included car dealing , was lucky to get away with serious injuries . |
| 25 | Big Ben was lucky to get away with a mistake at the second fence in his warm-up round , but is likely to be more careful when it matters . |
| 26 | Anne felt an urge to throw the kind of temper tantrum she had been able to get away with when she was six years old . |
| 27 | They have been able to get away with it , because it is difficult to reproach the Germans for pursuing an excessively sound monetary policy and sticking to low inflation . |
| 28 | ‘ You really believe that the US and the UN are going to allow you to get away with this ? ’ |
| 29 | But even if we now feel more personal sympathy for the manipulated foster-parent , we can still ask why natural selection has allowed the cuckoos to get away with it . |
| 30 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |