Example sentences of "get away with [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You ca n't get away with that any more . ’
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Waldegrave should not let the council get away with that .
5 I say they should n't get away with that .
6 For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition .
7 But the Hinkle does n't let me get away with that kind of thing .
8 ‘ You have a low opinion of my intelligence if you think I 'd let you get away with that . ’
9 You would n't honestly expect me to let you get away with that sort of behaviour , would you ? ’
10 She 'd be damned if she 'd let him think he could get away with that !
11 ‘ I ca n't let you get away with that .
12 Even the great Devlin would n't get away with that .
13 Somebody like James Frazer would n't have let Margaret get away with that .
14 And if she thought she 'd get away with that , then she had another think coming , she realised swiftly when , his arrogance topping hers , he rapped bluntly , ‘ Tough !
15 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
16 Hopefully we can get away with that room Jane with just maybe having to emulsion it
17 just a pity because Bil Billy could n't get away with that Jimmy
18 He wo n't get away with that .
19 And you carried on and I shot you dead I 'd get away with that .
20 You know yes if someone 's yeah that prob you probably would get away with that actually because
21 Even I do n't let him get away with that and he 's not my little brother .
22 But like , obviously the bath and shower , cos they 're plastic , they 're not going to be exactly the same colours , so that 's quite good , you can get away with that .
23 You certainly would n't get away with that with a violin concerto or something of the sort .
24 How could she let him get away with all he had said ?
25 And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs .
26 It is somewhat surprising that Jesus could get away with such drastic action .
27 ‘ This legislation should give a clear message to those who abuse and terrorise women and children in the home , that they will no longer get away with such behaviour , ’ she said .
28 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 .
29 The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots .
30 It 's proof of Verve 's complete control that they can get away with this sort of laval-like show .
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