Run away

The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.

Sometimes I feel I've got to / Run away / I've got to / Get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me

My parents want me to take a bath every day? Fine, I'm running away.

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that.[…]."

I decided to move out of the house when I was 24; my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home.

Look, kid... it's getting kind of late. It'll be dark soon. Maybe running away today isn't such a good idea.

The train's brakes failed and it ran away.

An autotrim failure can cause stabiliser trim to rapidly run away in the nose-up or nose-down direction.

The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.