Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] of their " in BNC.
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| 1 | My leaving them was similar to their having to let go of their children . |
| 2 | It is now also dawning on us that , while they may have dropped their hippie beads and trinkets , they failed to let go of their new world view . |
| 3 | They have to let go of their rationality , of their interminable thinking and bothering over everything . |
| 4 | The classic novelists certainly seem to have thought of their activity as communication . |
| 5 | Donations were appealed for and Arthur Caldecott ( now the Town Clerk ) spoke at a Committee meeting about many bondholders who were ‘ anxious to get rid of their bonds ’ . |
| 6 | Or again : It is in the direct and absolute interest of the English working class to get rid of their present connection with Ireland … |
| 7 | Zoos have a good stock of the lar gibbon Hylobates lar but are low on all the others , and so the CBSG is advising zoos to get rid of their lars and replace them with species such as hoolock H. hoolock and concolor H. concolor . |
| 8 | Mm , quite shows how desperate they all are , to get rid of their Christmas gifts . |
| 9 | Well they did n't , they did n't immediately , they , they individually wanted to get rid of their individual landlord but obviously you ca n't as y you get together with all the other tenants |