Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] get [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'm sure there are others with better reasons for wanting to get rid of him . ’ |
| 2 | But h I mean are people in the habit of wanting to get rid of furniture ? |
| 3 | Despite having got rid of " dumb " , the deaf in general will remain the same … |
| 4 | It has not escaped the fate of having to get rid of the father . |
| 5 | Nothing like trying to get rid of me is there ! |
| 6 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 7 | I therefore put quite a lot of effort into trying to get rid of this embarrassing effect . |
| 8 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 9 | If were to drink a litre of sea water , we would actually lose an extra third of a litre of water from our bodies in trying to get rid of the salt , and also run the risk of severe damage to the kidneys . |
| 10 | So you 're gon na have , you 're gon na have get rid of the lawn at the front then effectively ? |
| 11 | Better not if it is , you 're gon na have to get rid of them pretty sharpish , as soon as they 're old enough mate , you 've got to anyway |
| 12 | What , you 're gon na start getting rid of everything are you ? |
| 13 | Odd gloves we never used to charge for had to get rid of them and er so apart from those two offices er there was immediately above us was a biggish office spreading over these two blocks of offices , called the ticket office and there at that time about eleven girls working in it on tickets . |
| 14 | We are not chiropodists , we do n't actually cut away the hard skin because that i is a chiropodist 's job , but we certainly do have a good try at trying to get rid of as much hard skin as we can . |