Example sentences of "rid of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My previous attempts at getting rid of them had had the effect of reactivating them . |
| 2 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 3 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 4 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 5 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 6 | Get rid of what you do n't need , he wrote . |
| 7 | Unable to get rid of the feeling that the glass belongs to another time , another person . |
| 8 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 'm sure there are others with better reasons for wanting to get rid of him . ’ |
| 10 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |
| 11 | If he had n't eaten it , I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it . |
| 12 | Getting rid of me had proved too much for him and he was now trying to force through a muddled compromise . |
| 13 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you want us to get rid of it all for you ? ’ the man asked . |
| 15 | What should I use to get rid of them ? |
| 16 | If aphids are a big problem outside too , buy some ICI Rapid to get rid of the lot . |
| 17 | The normal reaction to a launch failure or cable break is to lower the nose and regain speed , and then to pull the release twice , hard , to get rid of any remaining cable . |
| 18 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 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 | The slip is used just to get rid of the excess height so that less than full airbrake is required for the rest of the approach . |
| 21 | Some emergency systems require operation of both the normal canopy catch and the jettison lever , and even then need a strong push up to get rid of the canopy . |
| 22 | If you do inadvertently end up with very little airbrake , or with excess speed , do n't be afraid to hold off slightly higher than normal while you get rid of some of the speed . |
| 23 | Do n't listen to the well-meaning friend who says ‘ two of these will get rid of that headache ’ or ‘ a dose of this will cure your constipation ’ . |
| 24 | That 's why it 's so difficult to get rid of them . |
| 25 | How can I get rid of head lice ? |
| 26 | By 1935 the infamous Nuremberg laws which deprived Jews of their citizenship had been effected ; with them went the boycotting of their businesses , their harassment in public places ( such as education and law ) , and the first signs of ultimate horror — the moves to be rid of them completely . |
| 27 | I had to be rid of them , I decided . |
| 28 | I had to be rid of the English boy . |
| 29 | I was thinking I would boil the sheets that evening and ask the chemist for a powerful disinfectant and give myself a vinegar douche to get rid of all the germs inside me . |
| 30 | However , we do want to get rid of they ( otherwise the house soon gets full of unsold turnery ! ) , so we price them by our own standards — which may well include a look at what the competition is charging and the ‘ finger in the wind ’ which Hugh decries . |