Example sentences of "[verb] rid of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's probably give her one and now he wants rid of her . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no wonder our Tamar wants rid of her . |
| 3 | No , I think that Wilko wants rid of him … more cash … happier bankers … and no one will really worry about selling off reserves ( unlike Batty or any of the other first team ) . |
| 4 | You just think Wilko wants rid of him now do n't you ? ? ? |
| 5 | In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You want rid of her , yet you do n't want her to wear your suit . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 8 | Many of the men currently undergoing treatment are wanting rid of political-style tattoos — ‘ IRA ’ and ‘ UDA ’ inscriptions that could be downright dangerous . |
| 9 | Well we never use them and I 've another reason for wanting rid of them . |
| 10 | David was sacked from his very first job at Vic Furlongs Music Shop in Bromley ; he was working there whilst still at school but , as Vic describes , ‘ He was a day-dreamer and had to be gotten rid of . ’ |
| 11 | However men are ‘ are gotten rid of ’ many women would be immeasurably hurt in the process . |
| 12 | Now , she says : ‘ I wish I had gotten rid of him back then instead . ’ |
| 13 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 14 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 15 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |
| 16 | Even though some of the most dangerous and persistent toxins , including polychlorinated biphenyls , PCBs , are no longer manufactured , quantities of them still exist , and must be got rid of . |
| 17 | There is a clear value in reducing the amount of chemical waste which has to be got rid of — and that thinking has a long way to go . |
| 18 | He had got rid of Ken Livingstone from Labour 's national executive committee , and got rid too of Labour 's unilateralist nuclear policy . |
| 19 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 20 | In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Apart from anything else the waste would have to be got rid of somewhere else . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Within the limits of detection , we have got rid of the Aids virus . ’ |
| 25 | In this way , Ted Grant and his comrades were got rid of , likewise Tony Cliff and his comrades . |
| 26 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Next time , possibly , when they 've got rid of Mr Kinnock , but not this time . ’ |