Example sentences of "away with it [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
2 | Do n't know we get away with it they want the whole lot bloody scrapping and the new lot all the rust ones , there 's hardly one decent is there ? |
3 | How the Rev Bain gets away with it I do n't know . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
6 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |