Example sentences of "[prep] get [verb] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the quickest way of getting rid of wolves . |
| 2 | The rising cost of getting rid of things |
| 3 | generally erm and if we 're talking about the strategy we 've got ta sort of er sort out for ourselves whether we think the strategy of getting rid of the local tyrants and the evil gentry is the wa right way to actually achieve that the aims of getting rid of warlords . |
| 4 | Files are used in plumbing principally for getting rid of burs on the ends of cut pipes and for making the pipe ends square . |
| 5 | … to ensure that redundancy is not used as a pretext for getting rid of employees which some manager wishes to get rid of for some quite other reasons , eg … by reason of personal dislike . |
| 6 | ( There used to be an old sailor 's trick for getting rid of tapeworms , using a raw egg with a pinhole in one end . |
| 7 | I was interested to see that the first thing for which the Cambodians and Vietnamese asked — even before getting rid of mines in Cambodia — was English language training . |
| 8 | One sign of its international impact has been a new willingness on the part of the Soviet Union , not traditionally regarded as an environmentally sensitive nation , to follow whatever lead the British set in getting rid of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 9 | Phillario has already wished that the rain would sweep Mira away , and now Corydon is intent on getting rid of weeds . |