Example sentences of "get [verb] of it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 2 | So , first of all when we 're thinking about our objectives , we 've actually got to think of it in being achievable . |
| 3 | We had some extremely hot gear lying around so we asked them if they 'd have a go at getting rid of it for us out of town where it maybe would have cooled down somewhat . |
| 4 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 5 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 6 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 7 | We offered the Government time , saying , ’ Let us not waste each other 's time : let us abolish the poll tax now , and get rid of it by April 1992 . ’ |
| 8 | If you want to get shot of it through DataEase , it depends on what version you 're using . |
| 9 | Can you get rid of it for me . ’ |
| 10 | How can I get rid of it for ever ? |
| 11 | money must retain its value , otherwise people will get rid of it in exchange for real ( intrinsic ) commodities ; |
| 12 | She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other . |
| 13 | Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands . |
| 14 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 15 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 16 | Well it 's not that , i it 's so they they like to get rid of it for the summer and i if there 's a sign of a bit of frost out they all come , shoving it onto the road and rotting everybody 's cars . |
| 17 | Says how much would you want to get rid of it for ? |
| 18 | Still ai n't got rid of that cockerel do n't know where to , to get rid of it to . |
| 19 | No , that 's why , that 's why we do n't want to get rid of it to anyone , just in case they chop it up |
| 20 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |