Example sentences of "[conj] you get [verb] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oh the the boy that you got rid of , yeah . |
| 2 | If your household has two cars and you get rid of one of them you may be helping the environment , but are certainly worse off . |
| 3 | And you get rid of the idea of the force getting stronger the closer you get to the ball by saying the curvature gets greater . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you got rid of the hereditary right to vote you would lose 85 per cent of the problems . |
| 5 | If you got rid of it — for example , by using the word astronaut instead — it would be easier to conceptualise a woman in space . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | But it 'd save a lot of hard work if you got rid of quite a lot of it . |
| 8 | If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ . |
| 9 | Why does n't the idiom just take the place of the verb , because if you get rid of the object as well ? |
| 10 | Now you , if you get rid of a lot of , of a lot of the rubbish right ? |
| 11 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 12 | If you do inadvertently end up with very little airbrake , or with excess speed , do n't be afraid to hold off slightly higher than normal while you get rid of some of the speed . |
| 13 | And she says to Lisa , er , when you get to end of shift , you you rule off , what you have sold , everything you 've sold , but next shift starting here 's your daddy . |
| 14 | When you getting rid of the stupid thing ? |
| 15 | So as long as you get rid of that one , two , three , four , you can press the space bar and then enter . |
| 16 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |