Example sentences of "if [pers pn] get [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if I got rid of the clothes and kept her stuff till we 're ready to do a boot sale with it . |
| 2 | She said no he kept saying oh we 'll start you in a month , start you in a month if I get rid of her . |
| 3 | She thought , I do n't doubt , that if she got rid of me he would turn to her , but she 's too fat . |
| 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 | First of May , if we get rid of the youngsters , first of May might be a bit of problem cos there 's |
| 12 | I think if we got rid of all those open topped tour buses in York , traffic would be a lot easier . |
| 13 | So really , if we got shot of all that cos really , you want to make another hatch |
| 14 | It may not be certain , as Ken Landon says , that Ho and Co will succeed in setting up a Communist State if they get rid of the French , but let me suggest that from the stand-point of the security of the US , it is one hell of a big chance to take . |
| 15 | if he gets rid of his staff |
| 16 | Cos if he gets rid of them first then he does n't have to worry about those things until er later which sometimes does happen . |