Example sentences of "got rid of " in BNC.
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| 31 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 32 | If you got rid of it — for example , by using the word astronaut instead — it would be easier to conceptualise a woman in space . |
| 33 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 34 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 35 | He has had to gamble on selling before he can buy , that 's why he got rid of first Ray Houghton and then Dean Saunders . |
| 36 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 37 | Luckily a pinch of salt got rid of them , leaving behind a blood-stained sock . |
| 38 | ‘ I got rid of him . |
| 39 | On April 24th President Itamar Franco got rid of the goat by showing that he could , after all , take action . |
| 40 | Last week Germany got rid of its constitutional right to political asylum , the most liberal in Europe . |
| 41 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 42 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 43 | He remarked , " I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . |
| 44 | The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ? |
| 45 | Either she got rid of him or he of her . |
| 46 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 47 | Do you remember when you got rid of one of your armchairs last year or the year before , they bought two new fireside chairs and one of the armchairs nearly had it |
| 48 | did , got rid of that about a year , twelve , eighteen months ago |
| 49 | living with that and then when we got rid of that purple carpet |
| 50 | But they got rid of the lot for a couple of Ford motor trucks , and William 's grandad with them . |
| 51 | And here is another link : at Cyrene , as at the Syracuse of Gelon , Hiero and Polyzalos , monarchy survived from the sixth century , when most of the cities of old Greece got rid of their tyrants , into the fifth . |
| 52 | The insight cracked Thomas 's heart slightly before he got rid of it again . |
| 53 | They 've got problems with erm staffing because they got rid of all their staff |
| 54 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 55 | The nuns got rid of it . |
| 56 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 57 | So , back in England , they got rid of everything in their home that was n't in the new , modern style they wanted . |
| 58 | ‘ We got rid of everything we did n't need . |
| 59 | We never got rid of the stains on her gear . |
| 60 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |