Example sentences of "get [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since . |
| 32 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 33 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 34 | ‘ Apart from anything else the waste would have to be got rid of somewhere else . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Within the limits of detection , we have got rid of the Aids virus . ’ |
| 36 | In this way , Ted Grant and his comrades were got rid of , likewise Tony Cliff and his comrades . |
| 37 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 38 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |
| 39 | On November 21st he told Poindexter , who was advising him that the Justice Department ‘ fact-finding mission ’ was about to descend on his office , that he had got rid of them all . |
| 40 | For him , Ireland was best served by deep cultural transformation ; for her , the first requirement was for bombs and bullets — the satanic British had to be got rid of . |
| 41 | ‘ Next time , possibly , when they 've got rid of Mr Kinnock , but not this time . ’ |
| 42 | He 'd got rid of most of the presents |
| 43 | He was glad he had got rid of her . |
| 44 | The English working class will never accomplish anything before it has got rid of Ireland … |
| 45 | But it just may be that now , when we 've got rid of so many wrong ideas , now , at last , is the moment when we might be able to frame — an answer . ’ |
| 46 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 47 | I thought I 'd got rid of that wretched reservation form . |
| 48 | Then Harry discovers that happiness does not consist ‘ in getting what one wanted , or in getting rid of what ca n't be got rid of , but in a different vision . ’ |
| 49 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |
| 50 | Have n't you got rid of those squits yet ? ’ |
| 51 | ‘ It 's about all I have n't got rid of . ’ |
| 52 | By evicting smelly plastic items ( see p 174 ) you have already got rid of the worst de-gassers . |
| 53 | Not funny anymore , run by suits , staffed by schoolboys , bloody shame , should never have got rid of Malcolm Muggeridge . |
| 54 | He could n't have got rid of them anyway , even if he 'd wanted to . |
| 55 | You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed . |
| 56 | I expect you thought you had got rid of your two bad pennies ! ' ’ |
| 57 | He stumbled and droned and scribbled in his book like someone half asleep , but Miss Thorne knew that as soon as he had got rid of the book and started working on the character of Scrooge he would be very different . |
| 58 | A group of constipated patients who were hypnotised then made to feel angry soon got rid of their problem . |
| 59 | ‘ I 've got rid of almost all the ideas associated with romantic love just in time to settle down with someone I like and respect . ’ |
| 60 | Leeds , having apparently got rid of their one bad apple in the week , now suspect the whole orchard might be contaminated . |