Example sentences of "them the slip " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoyed giving them the slip , as she sometimes succeeded in doing . |
| 2 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 3 | He had been in the ‘ custody ’ of psychiatric nurses but after his trial was adjourned for the day , he gave them the slip . |
| 4 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 5 | They did n't even see me give them the slip ! ’ |
| 6 | Show them the slip , ‘ it was ? |
| 7 | ‘ Giving them the slip . ’ |
| 8 | When Victor and I gave them the slip at Victoria station they knew we were onto them . |
| 9 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 10 | They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector , but it soon became clear he 'd given them the slip . |