Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] of [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something I 'd dreamed of since I was a boy humping golf-bags nearly as big as me . |
| 2 | You get rid of when you do range erase . |
| 3 | Your will is only for those which you ca n't get rid of because you ca n't get rid of everything . |
| 4 | Arousal curve well understanding the need for arousal for me helped because I now understand that having nerves while you 're speaking is not unnatural it is n't something that you 're able to get rid of but you need to be able to work with it and practice to improve performance . |
| 5 | This kind of sexism can be ( and has been ) noted , but it is hard to get rid of because it occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts : nobody has made or written down a rule saying that women can be addressed as ‘ dearie ’ or referred to as ‘ bitches ’ . |
| 6 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 7 | It 's just terribly bad luck , it 's the worst luck I 've heard of since I 've been here , that 's eight years . |
| 8 | It 's just terribly bad luck , the Consul had said , it 's the worst luck I 've heard of since I 've been here … |
| 9 | But this day is something I 've dreamed of since I was a kid and I just want to enjoy it . |
| 10 | Someone I 've dreamed of and whom I 'm going to work with . |
| 11 | How could the God-Emperor have sanctioned such a plan , if the human race were ever to achieve the destiny he had dreamed of for it ? |
| 12 | This is one of my film articles which I mean it 's of the things that I 've sent of and I know it will be published because I belong to the Cinema Veterans cinema and television veterans and they have this quarterly magazine and almost certainly you know it will be published in there , there 's no |
| 13 | I mean we can say what it 's made of and we might be able to make a guess at how old it is . |