Example sentences of "[noun sg] of get [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have the advantage of getting rid of both car and wife at the same time . |
| 2 | His hope of getting rid of at least half of Beador 's worthless debt proved far too sanguine ; if they unloaded a quarter , they would count themselves fortunate . |
| 3 | Friedman and Rosenman ( 1974 ) suggest that it is not a question of getting rid of Type-A behaviour , rather that we should learn to manage it . |
| 4 | Yeah and and if and I also what I was going to say how she she kind of is able to control erm or bring out because she 's bring out both his sides but erm to her father wants to sort of get rid of him , she 's able to erm just erm act more charming and get them , you know , one line to prove them wrong . |
| 5 | After lunch all delegates were able to visit the Zoo where Rentokil have the job of getting rid of unwelcome insects and animals without harming the ones they want to keep ! |
| 6 | ‘ I was n't aware that we were in the business of getting rid of inconvenient critics . |
| 7 | ‘ Without in any way undermining the importance of the character , he managed to be very , very funny , like in the business of getting rid of the beers that he did n't want . |
| 8 | What then , is the bloody point of getting rid of half of them ? |
| 9 | We 're just in the process of getting rid of the poll tax . |
| 10 | Subtle mixing of tone points to an ironic interpretation of these phrases : for instance , the preciosity of bethought herself contrasts oddly with the colloquial bluntness of getting rid of in " When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext for getting rid of their companion " ( 7 ) ; and in the final clause of the passage , the colloquial " looking out for " foregrounds the specious gentility of " something really superior in the way of a resident tutor " . |
| 11 | So there 's no chance of getting rid of all these coaches and getting people to walk round the er the guided tours and stuff like that ? |
| 12 | The debate is now focused on what the United States will do next time , if anything , to fulfil its declared policy of getting rid of General Noriega and avoid an image of timidity and indecisiveness when the chance comes . |
| 13 | While it intends to press ahead with its policy of getting rid of 15,000 staff a year over the next two years , finance director Barry Romeril said redundancy costs would be cut by half . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If such unpleasurable , stressful psychological conflicts develop , the ego , as part of its defensive strategy , employs a characteristic method of getting rid of them — it represses them . |
| 16 | It would also , if adopted , have the practical merit of getting rid of a procedural minefield . |
| 17 | We ca n't be credible in that great human crusade if we ca n't face the real challenge of getting rid of British nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In view of the apparent urgency of getting rid of you , ’ said George Felse , stirring his coffee , ‘ it might be an idea if you tried to recall what , if anything , you did see . ’ |
| 19 | It is often the only sensible way of getting rid of extra height quickly if you are still tending to overshoot with full airbrake . |
| 20 | All you need is a clean water-supply and an efficient way of getting rid of human excrement . |
| 21 | Agnes again stopped herself from yelling , ‘ How do I know ! ’ and she was about to say , ‘ You should have thought about this before , ’ but this would have been a stupid reply , for when that urge was tearing at your body and there was a way of getting rid of it , would one stop to think ? |
| 22 | If suicide were a way of getting rid of undesirable genetic characteristics , why do strandings still occur ? |
| 23 | But look on the bright side : we 've finally found a way of getting rid of Liverpool , too . |
| 24 | What 's the best way of getting rid of it ? |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 26 | middle-class people , rich people , go elsewhere ; they go and see their GP , they have a wider network of people that they could perhaps draw on ; and if they do n't they have the nine-to-five freedom from their children , the release from the pressures of having kids around ; they have boarding schools which are a legitimate way of getting rid of our children if you have the money to do it . |
| 27 | G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it . |
| 28 | Paul suggested a way of getting rid of this passivity , arguing that lecturers should give out notes at the beginning of lectures and then : |
| 29 | In about the middle of the fifth century Syracuse introduced the radical-seeming device of petalism ( which like Athenian ostracism was a way of getting rid of prominent enemies , except that olive ‘ petals ’ i.e. leaves , not sherds , ostraka , were used ) ; but we should not be deceived . |
| 30 | Suppose you were in charge of the CIA , or the British Secret Intelligence Service , or Mossad : what would be your best way of getting rid of Saddam ? |