Example sentences of "of get [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | would of done it she would of got rid of them to make sure she she stayed there . |
| 2 | It is often the only sensible way of getting rid of extra height quickly if you are still tending to overshoot with full airbrake . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | AS WE turn , discussion falls on the possibility of getting rid of the stones . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All you need is a clean water-supply and an efficient way of getting rid of human excrement . |
| 7 | Ideal conditions then saw steady progress and plenty of time to experiment with different ways of getting rid of straw . |
| 8 | That would have the advantage of getting rid of both car and wife at the same time . |
| 9 | What better way to spend one of those rare breaks in the suburban day than by studying methods of getting rid of one 's wife . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | If suicide were a way of getting rid of undesirable genetic characteristics , why do strandings still occur ? |
| 12 | But look on the bright side : we 've finally found a way of getting rid of Liverpool , too . |
| 13 | What 's the best way of getting rid of it ? |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't aware that we were in the business of getting rid of inconvenient critics . |
| 15 | The last time I saw you , you had an old Gretsch which you were thinking of getting rid of … |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 17 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 18 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 19 | A The surest away of getting rid of them is to cut them down and dig them out . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The rising cost of getting rid of things |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | She was thinking of getting rid of the lift attendants anyway . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Paul suggested a way of getting rid of this passivity , arguing that lecturers should give out notes at the beginning of lectures and then : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | It would also , if adopted , have the practical merit of getting rid of a procedural minefield . |