How To Use Get away In A Sentence

  • It explains why some people must have a full eight hours' kip while others get away with half that. The Sun
  • How can your competitor get away with not adding that tax and ace you out of yet another job?
  • After appearing to get away to near perfect starts Hutchinson and Campbell were called OCS and had to make an agonising return to restart. ISAF News
  • Marine pilots were advised to drop warning messages on the towns or villages concerned, allowing civilians time to get away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
  • It is hard nowadays to get away with something so elemental. Times, Sunday Times
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  • He claimed she had told him:'The local police are corrupt and if you pay them you can get away with anything. The Sun
  • How can he be allowed to get away with such blatant, unhistorical nonsense?
  • How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt.
  • Let's get away for the weekend. A change of scene will do you good.
  • As an electioneerer, I can get away with any of 'em. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • That is why they let the banks get away with so much for so long. Times, Sunday Times
  • “We are bewitched, that is certain, and we shall not get away from here before broad day. X. Beneath the Stars
  • Most of what I write is actually just cut and paste stuff from official documents, but I seem to get away with it.
  • The cops came with loud sirens blaring and I just prayed that no one would discover me until the coast was clear and I could get away.
  • He can just about get away with saying he is upper middle class. Times, Sunday Times
  • We continued as a three-piece for another year until he decided he too needed to get away from it all.
  • I like to get away from London at the weekend.
  • You wouldn't get away with it today. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was framing a sucker to get away with a whole front," I heard the man say, "or with a poke or a souper, but instead he got dropped by a flatty and was canned for a sleep. The Ear in the Wall
  • I'm sure if Kevin had used the word bilious in his performance, I would have let him get away with it. Broken Music, A Memoir
  • He'll get away from it briefly when it's goose season in his native Nebraska or when the fish are biting somewhere.
  • Another is that he was a defector and he just wanted to get away from the war, and all of this has been flying around in the last few days, and really no clear sense of what the true story is, is yet to emerge.
  • Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away.
  • This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court.
  • But Instead obama gave a message to the Public Ceos , you can get away with criminal activity . Broken Government: Are small banks the solution?
  • I can pass me to inspire to help to what they thought they get away from the beggarliness on the thought.
  • Progress beyond the league stage is really in their own hands and they would probably get away with a draw.
  • The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
  • Only a certain calibre of A-lister can get away with it and Eto'o largely does. Samuel Eto'o's deadly form for Inter could spell trouble for Tottenham
  • I couldn't pull over without forcing some one else to brake and I simply didn't have the power to get away.
  • Feeling uncertain, I asked Vidal if I could get away with such a scene.
  • I worry about the plea bargain arrangements which made it possible for Mark Thatcher to get away with a R3 million fine, which will probably be paid by the baroness or his Texas in-laws.
  • We feel developers should not be allowed to get away with extensions like this.
  • So they hated their "target" audience from the get-go, and despite wanting to get away from "Science Fiction" they are going to continue doing the same thing: April Fool's Comes Early: SyFy anyone?
  • However, I can't get away from the fact that my guiding parameters are somewhat limited by my lack of motoring knowledge.
  • Like most of the journalists working on The Guide he seemed to realise that writing for this publication meant you could get away with any old tosh but over the years has refined this to an art.
  • Why, then, will publishers countenance huge spending on book launches when adult authors are lucky to get away with not paying for their own white wine in some fusty club?
  • Why do these criminals feel they can perpetrate such horrendous crimes and get away with it?
  • This term continues to undermine the recovery of victims and plays down the enormity of the crimes so the perpetrators continually get away with pathetically short sentences. The Sun
  • So he took his old shoe and painted it out and slapped the new shoe logo on that shoe, trying to see if he could if he could get away with it.
  • She reckons you can get away with virtually anything, particularly acid colours.
  • Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields 
  • Get away from me-your breath stinks.
  • That the sequels continue after the critically disappointing Ocean's Twelve, only proves that these ganefs will try to get away with this theft as long as they can bring in the shekels.
  • In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
  • Mr. Towers wouldn't survive as an art critic because no serious journal of painting would permit him to get away with the "slapdash" comparison of Roy Lichtenstein's work with mine. Complaint
  • He takes a risk because he thinks he can get away with it because the facts may well turn out to support his editor's desire and he wants a quiet life and to be obliging.
  • Her main preoccupation was to get away from Baltimore, and she snapped up the first remotely eligible husband who came her way. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
  • Like Aerosmith at its best, Buckcherry has both the rhythmic sway to go with its rock-and-roll stomp and the raw charisma to get away with its period pretensions.
  • Those whose university days are a hazy memory are more likely to get away with degree fraud, according to the agency that attempts to halt the practice. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Flaming Lips are probably the only band who could get away with a meandering double album of prog rock jams. The Sun
  • Then you can still get away with dark tights or leggings when you want to look summery, without risking frostbite. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most of us would rather avoid conflict so no one says anything and they get away with it. Times, Sunday Times
  • He ate his breakfast at the Grill every morning of his life, desperate to get away from that barracuda.
  • The female escaped but the male deer suffered appalling injuries as it tried to get away from the crowds of jeering onlookers.
  • I know many winemakers who wish they could get away from barrel ferm ... but they need to keep the lights on. Wine Chick Wednesday: I'm in a New York State of Disconnect
  • If the Government can get away with it, it will put more and more of its social services on to local government without a brass razoo going along with it.
  • I counted Bill and Megan Romersma, whose place backed up to ours and whose son, Jared, Puddles and I had ditched earlier, because there was no way we were going to get away with this if that little tattletale had come along. Chicken
  • His influence in high society allowed him to literally get away with murder.
  • But instead of trying to get away he pushed hard and tripped me so that I fell to the ground and he fell on top of me.
  • IT commonly oversubscribes bandwidth, switching backplanes and router capacities -- and we usually get away with it. InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
  • No one knows how the suspect managed to get away from the police.
  • So many cheats get away with that. The Sun
  • Baffles me that these good-for-nothing jerks actually get away with all this nonsense. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Compensation Philosophy that is Coming Soon to Doctors
  • The manner he continued to deceive people and think he could get away with it is unbelievable. The Sun
  • Me, I'm trying to decide if I should pack the cordovan mary janes OR the black chinese style slippers, and if I can get away with leaving behind any of: hiking boots, running shoes, Tevas, climbing shoes, goth boots (which count as athletic footwear ... * g*) ... NEED MOAR SHOEz.
  • One is that the CEOs in question will be powerful enough to strip assets from their companies for their own gain - and get away with it.
  • He wears a hat with a jaunty feather, as actors do; perhaps only they can get away with it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dr Dunn was apparently trying to get away when he was shot.
  • If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn't pay any tax at all.
  • She'd gladly have gone anywhere to get away from the cottage.
  • The thieves get away with the casket but not the jewels, which Lizzie has extracted for safe keeping.
  • The funds tend to get away with their woeful performance because once investors have money in a fund they do not tend to move it. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has also claimed to gardaí that during her time at the school, the teacher made advances to one of her friends, who managed to get away.
  • They expected to get away with a plain denial of history rather than a mere insistence on divorcing history from politics.
  • It's clear that if the regime thinks it can get away with murdering foreign journalists it won't be squeamish about dealing with its internal opposition.
  • He tried to get away from the feeling, to isolate and exteriorize it sufficiently to see what motives it was made of; but it remained a mere blind motion of his blood, the instinctive recoil from the thing that no amount of arguing can make The Reef
  • Now he was dead, and I could not get away from my sadness.
  • Snake-phobia sufferers take note: redbelly snakes will do anything they can to get away from you and stay alive. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
  • The media is largely compliant - being so popular, and now in your third term, no-one is game to take you on or push you to answer questions, so you get away with dissembling, even lies.
  • Don't think you can get away with some nasty imitation by hiding the label in that bucket! ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • If you specialize in legwear a la American Apparel and/or Members Only, maybe, MAYBE, you can get away with that. Alexandra Sinderbrand: Don't Do the Choo
  • Although by now all six of us were firm friends, John and Stephanie had to go home to let their baby sitter get away, and there was still a healthy amount of wine to be drunk.
  • Catching sight of it, she shrieked and tripped over her own feet trying to get away from it.
  • After a given electoral defeat, the left consoles itself with the illusion that a cabal of this nature would have contrived the lowest, slimiest smear it could have hoped to get away with, found some moneybags to fund it, snuck it into the public debate, and swayed the weak-minded. Deconstructing Obama
  • Why do males get away with baring their chests without coming under fire by critics?
  • Far less so to us, you may be sure; but we shall be content again when we can get away from all your whiggery, democratism, devilism, mobism! The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West
  • How can an organisation of this size and importance be allowed to get away with this?
  • People hammered on train doors and screamed to get out, while crowds in the station ran in all directions, protecting their heads, to get away from the chaos.
  • This enabled the pilot to get away from the blast and then have another go. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am almost comatose after my stay here and long to get away. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Marlowe: Uh - huh. I usually get away with it too.
  • I think there is a real need to get away from all this regional provincialism - especially in a country where literature itself is so much at risk.
  • But it seems wrong that the man is literally allowed to get away with murder. The Sun
  • They will be exposed for things called hypocrisy and cant, and they will not get away with it.
  • You can't get away from the fact that the cost of living is always rising.
  • These people can't be allowed to get away with what are shocking acts of negligence. The Sun
  • They move to Walford to get away from their families and cause trouble by squatting in a house. The Sun
  • The whole point was to get away from a Christian-centred view of religion.
  • I've recently tried to ignore the comments of this idiot because he's finished and what he says should now be irrelevant but he should not be allowed to get away with this kind of accusatory statement Archive 2007-01-01
  • i think the thing thing only comes in one size. ill definitely look out for MP3 cases. my dresses are usually above the knee. depending on how "flowy" the dress is ive been able to get away with clipping my pump to the front of my bra. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes
  • He felt a jealous chagrin as he watched them follow her into the church, an anger that she dared to trample upon him that way, a fierce desire to get away and quaff the cup of admiration at the hand of some of his own friends, or to quaff some cup, _any_ cup, for he was thirsty, thirsty, _thirsty_, and this was a dry and barren land. The City of Fire
  • The word honey smelled the worst, and I pretended to look out my window to get away from it. The Beautiful Miscellaneous
  • I understand that Rob wants to get away from the tweeny romance (btw I am a die-hard twilight fan) and I think he achieves this by doing an indie movie in which he takes on Dali's sexual exploration. New Trailer: ‘Twilight’ Star Robert Pattinson Moves From Edward Cullen To Salvadore Dali In ‘Little Ashes’ » MTV Movies Blog
  • If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn't pay any tax at all.
  • The next day, to get away from all the tourist buses clogging the narrow streets, I took refuge in a pretty little park I found.
  • ‘You can't get away from the fact that you're still in a cowshed,’ he says.
  • He claimed she had told him:'The local police are corrupt and if you pay them you can get away with anything. The Sun
  • What’s mystifying is that interviewers allow her to get away with it. Think Progress » Bachmann’s Latest Whopper: ‘The Federal Government Literally Owns Banks’
  • What's pathetic is how the republicans are continuously able to get away with spreading lies and misinformation. Health care ad wars continue
  • I saw a crowd of about 40 shocked and terrified people along the south side of the car park, trying to get away.
  • His latest book is rubbish. He seems to think that because he's a famous author he can get away with murder!
  • I can only get away with this calumny because of the shield of anonymity.
  • And, more importantly, some one who doesn't let her get away with tantrums, bossiness or bad behaviour.
  • That way you get away from the touristy things and see the local things. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now it's time to produce the magic wand and get AWAY with the winners. The Sun
  • Like all little girls, she was very "ticklish," and when he dallied with his fingers about her plump neck, she dropped to the ground and kicked and rolled over to get away from him. The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl
  • But there's also a real chance to get away from it all and come back home completely refreshed. The Sun
  • It's got to be better than stopping people in the street who'll quickly make up any old tosh just to get away and get on with their daily duties.
  • That's how the spirit is controlled - daemons are fiercely independent beings, if they can get away - they will.
  • Get away from the hustle and bustle of modern life and step into a well-deserved world of relaxation. The Sun
  • If I thought I could get away with it, I wouldn't pay any tax at all.
  • Stories that are urban legends, passed around in churches and which he forgetfully thought he could get away with .. Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened
  • Tooley Street with the old folks, who really are so uncommon glumpy, that it's quite refreshing to get away from them. Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
  • i love camping and hunting in natl forest and so does my family. get away and leave all of the stress of city life behind. Camping
  • You can get away with wedges or a high-heeled strappy sandal, because you're not going to see much of the shoe.
  • In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
  • A few years later a crisis of confidence led him into an almost reclusive lifestyle, where he would paint to get away from the pain and, more disturbingly, lacerate his skin because he believed he wasn't attractive to the opposite sex.
  • He didn't even have to use knackery to get away, neither. Prentice Alvin
  • To get away from the showbiz glitz, head down Palma's side streets and dinky squares for good shopping, eating and historic sights.
  • I need to get it out of my head pretty quick, get away for a bit. The Sun
  • Asaire cried out and tried to get away, but the stranger pinioned him down with inhuman strength.
  • He can say things that aren't necessarily factually correct and get away with it.
  • With the instigator rule, it restricts self-policing, so guys get away with these kinds of cheap shots.
  • An old van and a couple of clapped-out motor bikes, and they let them get away.
  • Somehow, I managed to get away with only posting on here almost once a month for the latter half of the year.
  • Most of the politicians are sensibly out of town, but the poor working stiffs hardly get away at all.
  • They move to Walford to get away from their families and cause trouble by squatting in a house. The Sun
  • We were the last life raft to get away from the ship. The Sun
  • This makes them easy pickings for religious hucksters, who continually say the most ridiculous things and get away with it only because their audience isn't bright enough to think it through for themselves.
  • Another popular theory is that because Penghu is relatively isolated geographically it will be difficult for criminals to get away.
  • The archmage was a courtier; Rathar wasn't, or was as little as he could get away with. Rulers of the Darkness
  • He said that for people trying to get away from a life of drugs, having a roof over their heads was of prime importance.
  • The word honey smelled the worst, and I pretended to look out my window to get away from it. The Beautiful Miscellaneous
  • He needed to get away from that crazy loony school.
  • How long do we let these law-breaking criminals get away with it? Sanford on Wilson: 'It's time to move on'
  • The cox gave the sprint call earlier than planned to get away from the Chinese.
  • He cannot go on being a mendacious sybarite inside and outside Parliament, and get away with it.
  • Please do not let them get away with holding the extended edition hostage until everyone buys the theatrical versions.
  • Some people can get away with breaking the law and others face penalties.
  • I need to get it out of my head pretty quick, get away for a bit. The Sun
  • It was easy to get away from him now, and when I saw his face with that creamy guck stuck to it I forgot about being scared and wanted to laugh.
  • The Harz were a popular place for the middle class to get away from it all. Emancipation
  • Social injustice in the forms of racial and sex discrimination, bullying and oppression of the weak and the poor often get away with impunity. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • This colleague has an almost magical ability to get away with doing less work than everyone else.
  • Teenagers often get away with outrageous and antisocial behaviour because it's believed to be hormonal and a natural part of adolescence.
  • The pilot did an amazing job to get away and land safely. The Sun
  • I wish Scott and Caroline and Lorna well and I hope they get away with it for ever.
  • The job the crew carries out is the audacious theft of a mafia safe full of gold they just about get away with, after a fairly thrilling chase through the canals of Venice.
  • As the Garzon situation demonstrates (and I think EPosner has it right), Garzon was simply seeing what he could get away with vis-a-vis “universal jurisdiction” and so long as his targets matched the wish lists of various members of the academic international law community, they did everything they could to enable his politics with high-sounding pronouncements as to the QED “legality” of his course of action. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare: The Upbeat News About the Obama Administration
  • “Bitch, get away from him!” pealed a shrill voice from behind. Shore Thing
  • He was lucky to get away with his title unlike STURM. East Side Boxing
  • Despite the many heinous acts of extortion, revenge and intimidation that Keshari had seen in action over the years, it never ceased to dumbfound her the kinds of things that Ricky and those he employed could pull off and get away with. Larger Than Lyfe
  • He can get away with anything, he could get away with murder and my mom would still love him.
  • Your company may make the best "whatsit" in the industry, but that doesn't mean you can get away with an amateurish-looking website or fail to deliver your product on time. Entrepreneur.com: Latest Articles
  • That is how the usurpers get away with liberticide — incrementalism, at least until their control grid is completely in place. The Volokh Conspiracy » Obscenity Conviction for Adult-to-Adult Noncommercial E-mail About (Fantasy) Sex With Children:
  • You can't get away from the fact that the cost of living is always rising.
  • But every genre has its talentless, dreadful army of handless practitioners, and yet somehow, unlike poor old horror, they all still manage to get away with not having their finest sons and daughters tarred with the brush of the hopeless.
  • So if your reaction to the guy on the street at the top of this column was to step up your pace and get away from him (which corresponds to saying "this is nuts" and closing your browser window), your opinion would not affect the outcome -- but if you happen to be a Republican, Harris's methodology imputes to you a likelihood of holding crazy views. 'Wingnuts': An Autobiography?
  • They cannot be allowed to get away with such childish behaviour. The Sun
  • We did little to help him and, charmed by McGrath's niceness, we protected him and allowed him to get away with it.
  • He seemed to be able to get away with it. The Sun
  • They were lucky to get away with 2-1 because we totally outplayed them in front of their big crowd.
  • No longer will he or she be able to hide behind the actions of his or her company to get away with uncompetitive practices.
  • Many blame noisy neighbours for disturbing the peace, with a quarter of those polled moving house to get away from them. The Sun
  • We managed to get away from the fields of trenches, past a farm where a bale of hay was blazing, and onto open hillside. Times, Sunday Times
  • This past weekend was my weekend on, so I really couldn't get away from work properly.
  • It can also make it harder for burglars to get away if disturbed. The Sun
  • You feel impelled to act to get away from or move closer to a particular set of circumstances. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
  • Though the corrupt city councilors may get away from the penalty of the law in granting the amnesty, they cannot escape the punishment of the voters in the future.
  • He also lets me get away with being a bit bossy. The Sun
  • I don’t care what people watch and what they get into, my main gripe is I get this feeling that there are some smelly men in suits somewhere smirking at what they can get away with on TV, and counting themselves as avant guard and artistic. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is what I hate about HBO.
  • Proper budgeting is impossible until this is done and we have to get away from a situation where we have simply moved from overspending to underspending.
  • But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder.
  • She's just using the feminist thing as a cover - imagine how much she can get away with in the name of feminism.
  • Tom Burkard, a research fellow at the thinktank who is on the steering committee for the planned school, said: "I want to get away from the idea that it is going to be a glasshouse or sin-bin. Secondary school where every teacher will be a soldier
  • While my life was being played out in anonymous misery in Peckham, he was the cricketing rebel who dared to stick two fingers up to Lord's while single-handedly dismantling the Aussies, a man who never played safe or kept one eye on his averages, whose flaws were part of his appeal – who else could get away with that dodgy moustache and dodgier mullet? TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens
  • There are very few actors approaching 60 who can get away with saying "groovy" - but Bill Nighy is definitely one of them. WalesOnline - Home
  • DAVE: Actually, many pioneers in codependency were feminists, trying to get away from that kind love expectation for women. NY Daily News
  • He can just about get away with saying he is upper middle class. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can get away with wearing your sneakers with almost any type of trouser - track pants, khakis, drawstring pants, jeans, or cords.
  • He seemed to be able to get away with it. The Sun
  • It's been a real eye-opener to see how many get away with it. The Sun
  • While the Government, the police particularly, have lamented about increasing road carnage resulting from overloading, nothing seems to be solved because no punishment is meted out to the culprits as they corruptly get away with it.
  • His fingers were clawing at my arms as he tried to get away.
  • At the very least, though, she had produced a holophrase with the distinct meaning, ‘Get away from me you scary beasts!’
  • My first impulse was to get away from him as quickly as possible, but sometimes that is not easy to do.
  • He cried out and tried to get away, but the stranger pinioned him down with inhuman strength.
  • Kurtz set up her opening by saying that Gawker can get away with using salty language on their site and she responded by saying the word "dick" on TV and although it made it on the telecast, it Crooks and Liars
  • But I think people are s o depressed they just want to get away. The Sun

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