Example sentences of "get rid of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | However men are ‘ are gotten rid of ’ many women would be immeasurably hurt in the process . |
| 3 | Now , she says : ‘ I wish I had gotten rid of him back then instead . ’ |
| 4 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 5 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 6 | Should have got rid of it years ago , but had n't . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had got rid of Ken Livingstone from Labour 's national executive committee , and got rid too of Labour 's unilateralist nuclear policy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In one swoop the feeling swallowed her up and she had never got rid of it since . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Apart from anything else the waste would have to be got rid of somewhere else . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Within the limits of detection , we have got rid of the Aids virus . ’ |
| 16 | In this way , Ted Grant and his comrades were got rid of , likewise Tony Cliff and his comrades . |
| 17 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Next time , possibly , when they 've got rid of Mr Kinnock , but not this time . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd got rid of most of the presents |
| 23 | He was glad he had got rid of her . |
| 24 | The English working class will never accomplish anything before it has got rid of Ireland … |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I thought I 'd got rid of that wretched reservation form . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Have n't you got rid of those squits yet ? ’ |